battle, early modern

Battle of Zhvanets

Battle of Zhvanets was a battle fought in September 1653 at Zhvanets, in what is now Ukraine. It was part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, which ran from 1648 to 1657. The recorded result: See Aftermath.

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Plan of fortress in the Ukrainian city of Zhvanets where there was a battle in 1653 during the Khmelnytsky Uprisings. Work by Napoleon Orda.. Napoleon Orda, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Record

Date	September 1653 (month precision)
Place	Zhvanets, Ukraine 48.552N, 26.485E
Part of	Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648 to 1657)
Kind	Battle, early modern
Result	See Aftermath
Belligerents	25px\|border=no Cossack Hetmanate; 25px Crimean Khanate	25px Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders	25px\|border=no Bohdan Khmelnytskyi; 25px\|border=no Ivan Bohun; 25px\|border=no Ivan Sirko; 25px İslâm III Giray	25px John II Casimir
Strength	30,000–40,000 Cossacks; 20,000 Tatars	30,000–40,000 cavalry, infantry and servants; 20,000 Schwarze Reiters; 2,000 Transylvanian mercenaries; 1,000 Moldavian mercenaries; Several thousand of the Pospolite Ruszenie
Casualties and losses	Unknown	25,000 killed and wounded

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Khotin 1788, 3.5 km
Battle of Khotyn 1673, 5.9 km
Siege of Kamenets 1655, 16 km
Siege of Kamenets 1672, 16 km
Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket 1944, 50 km

In the same war

Before: Siege of Suczawa 21 August 1653
All 10 engagements of Khmelnytsky Uprising

Elsewhere in 1653

Battle of Zhvanets is one of 979 engagements of the 17th century in the atlas and one of 133 in present-day Ukraine.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q4087375, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Zhvanets, revision 1382550496, 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.