Atlas of Battles

commander, 6 engagements

Battles of Selim I Giray

Battles of Selim I Giray

khan of the Crimean Khanate, 1631 to 1704

Selim I Giray is recorded as a commander at 6 placed engagements in the atlas between 1662 and 1695: 4 battles, 1 siege and 1 campaign across 4 present-day countries, most in Ukraine (3), Poland (1), Russia (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 2,748 km apart end to end, 550 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Polish–Ottoman War of 1672–1676 (3), Russo-Polish War (1), Great Turkish War (1).

Battle of KrasnobródBattle of BuzhynSiege of KamenetsBattle of ŻurawnoCrimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689Battle of LugosBattle of BuzhynSiege of KamenetsBattle of ŻurawnoCrimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689Battle of LugosKyivBucharestChișinăuSevastopolDniproOdessaLvivIașiZhytomyrZaporizhzhya500 km47.772N, 27.981E
6 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1662: 1 engagements1672: 2 engagements2 in 16721676: 1 engagements1687: 1 engagements1695: 1 engagements16621695
6 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Buzhyn, 1662Siege of Kamenets, 1672Battle of Krasnobród, 1672Battle of Żurawno, 1676Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689, 1687Battle of Lugos, 169516621695
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 3

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1662Battle of BuzhynQ12085417, UkraineCossack–Tatar victory
18 August 1672Siege of KamenetsKamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine448 km WOttoman victory
5 October 1672Battle of KrasnobródKrasnobród, Poland319 km NWPolish-Cossack victory
25 September 1676Battle of ŻurawnoZhuravno, Ukraine161 km SESee #Aftermath; Treaty of Żurawno
1687Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689Crimea, Russia876 km SEOttoman–Tatar victory
21 September 1695Battle of LugosLugoj, Romania943 km WOttoman victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Johann Hofmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.