Battle of the Cosmin Forest

Battle of the Cosmin Forest
	; Cherubin Gniewosz in the battle of Suceava (original by J. Kossak, c. 1890) (English)
Date	26 October 1497
Location	Cosmin Forest, Moldavia (today in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine)
Result	Moldavian victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Poland	Moldavia
Commanders and leaders
King John I Albert; Stanisław Chodecki	Stephen III of Moldavia
Strength
40,000 troops; 40,000 servants	18,000 Moldavians; 10,000 Wallachians and Tatars
Casualties and losses
2,000 – 5,000	Minor

The Battle of the Cosmin Forest (1497) (Romanian: bătălia de la Codrii Cosminului; Polish: bitwa pod Koźminem) was fought between the Moldavian Prince, Ștefan cel Mare (Stephen the Great), and King John I of Poland (John I Albert) of the Kingdom of Poland.^[2] The battle took place in northern Moldavia, about 50 km north of the-then capital of Suceava (Polish: Suczawa), in the hills between Adâncata (nowadays Hlyboka), situated in the valley of the Siret River, and Cernăuți (nowadays Chernivtsi), situated in the valley of the Prut River, and resulted in a major victory for Moldavia.

^ Jonathan Eagles, Stephen the Great and Balkan Nationalism: Moldova and Eastern European History, (I.B. Tauris, 2014), 58.
^ ^a ^b ^c The Battle of Cosmin Forest, Tadeusz Grabarczyk, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, Vol. 1, ed. Clifford J. Rogers, (Oxford University Press, 2010), 434.

[1] Jonathan Eagles, Stephen the Great and Balkan Nationalism: Moldova and Eastern European History, (I.B. Tauris, 2014), 58.

[Grabarczyk434-2] The Battle of Cosmin Forest, Tadeusz Grabarczyk, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, Vol. 1, ed. Clifford J. Rogers, (Oxford University Press, 2010), 434.

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