User:Kansas Bear/List of Cossack raids

This is an incomplete list of Cossack raids.

History
During the 16th-17th century the Cossacks conducted many raids. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Crimean Khanate and Principality of Moldova, were also subject to raids. The Crimeans themselves also enslaved Christian populations and sold them to the Ottomans. This mutual warfare between Cossacks and Tatars had existed for a long time in the steppes of southern Ukraine. However this changed when around 1570s Cossacks started to use boats to cross the Black Sea and raid Ottoman coastal settlements, they even captured the Ottoman fortress of Azov in 1637 and held it for several years. The Cossack raids could involve around 40-80 chaikas, longboats, each having about 60 men. The highpoint of the raids was between 1600 and 1620. The Cossack raids resulted in diplomatic crisis's and sometimes war, such as the Ottoman-Polish war of 1620, between the Ottomans, Polish Commonwealth and Russian Tsardom. The Ottomans accused them of harboring the Cossacks. In response to Cossack raids, the Ottomans built more forts and patrolled more frequently with their fleet. There was a major battle between the Cossack and Ottoman fleet at Kara-Harman in 1625.