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Battle of Grunwald

Battle of Grunwald was a battle fought on 15 July 1410 at Grunwald, in what is now Poland. It was part of the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War, which ran from 1409 to 1411. The recorded result: Polish–Lithuanian victory.

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Fragment of Battle of Grunwald, Vytautas the Great
Fragment of Battle of Grunwald, Vytautas the Great. Jan Matejko, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Fought15 July 1410
WhereGrunwald, Poland53.486N, 20.125E
OutcomePolish–Lithuanian victory
Part ofPolish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War1409 to 1411

Where it sits in the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War

Battle of Grunwald, 1410Siege of Marienburg, 1410Battle of Koronowo, 141014101410Battle of Grunwald, 1410
3 placed engagements of the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date15 July 1410
PlaceGrunwald, Poland
53.486N, 20.125E
KindBattle, medieval
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The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

The ground today

Relief of the ground around the site of Battle of Grunwald
Relief within about 10.0 km of the site, contours every 10 m. Copernicus DEM GLO-30, ESA.
Satellite view of the site of Battle of Grunwald today
The same ground from Sentinel-2 on 2023-04-22. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2023.

The recorded site stands at about 214 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from 162 to 251 m, 89 m of relief, gently rolling country and today it is 58% cropland, 22% grassland, 20% tree cover.

cropland: 58%grassland: 22%tree cover: 20%cropland 58%grassland 22%tree cover 20%
west to east, 10.0 km176 to 219 mnorth to south, 10.0 km181 to 231 m
Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.

Nearest engagements

In the same war

Elsewhere in 1410

Battle of Grunwald is one of 720 engagements of the 15th century in the atlas and one of 469 in present-day Poland.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q33570, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Grunwald, revision 1382412700, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.