Book of Campaigns of Islam Giray III
A Crimean Tatar chronicle of the khan's alliance with Khmelnytsky's Cossacks against Poland, 1648 to 1650.
Full title Book of Campaigns: chronicle of Islam Giray III’s campaigns with Khmelnytsky’s Cossacks against Poland (1648-1650), Russian translation, Simferopol 1998
تاريخ اسلام گرای خان (كتاب تاريخ)
Haci Mehmed Senai of Crimea (fl. 1651)
Haci Mehmed Senai wrote this Ottoman Turkish chronicle at Bakhchysarai in 1651. It describes the campaigns of Khan Islam Giray III in Ukraine, including the Zboriv and Zbarazh campaign, fought with Khmelnytsky's Zaporozhian Cossacks against Poland. It shows the Crimean khanate as a military power in the mid-seventeenth century. The atlas does not hold the text: the card records a 1998 Simferopol Russian translation (web transcription with maps), and nothing is stored.
- How they knew
- Eyewitness
- Who “Tartar” means here
- The Crimean Tatars of Islam Giray III's khanate. The card notes that the contemporaries Beauplan and Chevalier (W078) called them Precopian Tartars.
- Why read it
- The Crimean Tatar side of the 1648 to 1650 wars in Ukraine, told by a writer at the khan's court.
- Watch out
- It is a court panegyric, and the Russian translation derives from Abrahamowicz's Ottoman text. The atlas quotes nothing from this work.
What it says
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The fine print
How we know
firsthand The author saw the places or people described.
firsthand or near-contemporary court account written 1651 at Bakhchisaray
Research notes
- Court panegyric; the Russian translation derives from Abrahamowicz's Ottoman text.
Why it matters
Crimean Tatar narrative of the khanate as a military power in the mid-seventeenth century, contemporary with Beauplan and Chevalier (W078) on the 'Precopian Tartars'.
Places named
Crimea; Ukraine (Zboriv, Zbarazh); Poland; Budjak
Peoples named
Crimean khanate (Islam Giray III); Zaporozhian Cossacks; Poland-Lithuania; Nogays; Ottomans