Chyhyryn campaign - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Chyhyryn campaign - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Heywood, Colin J.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061272
Doc. NO	:	ALei1669
Main Entry	:	Heywood, Colin J.
Title & Author	:	Chyhyryn campaign - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Heywood, Colin J.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,860 words)
Abstract	:	The town of Chyhyryn (Ott.T.: Çehrin; Pol.: Czehrin; Russ.: Čigirin) was of military and political significance in the later eleventh/seventeenth century as the stronghold and administrative centre of the Ukrainian Right-Bank Cossack state. It is situated approximately 250 km south-east of Kyiv in the present day Ukrainian oblastʾ of Čerkasy and lies on the Tyasmin river, a small west-bank tributary of the Dnepro, opposite a point approximately 500 km from the latter’s mouth. The Ottoman campaign undertaken by the grand vizier Kara Mustafa (Qara
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1669.pdf