Cossack raid on Sinop

Cossack raid on Sinop
Part of the Cossack raids and Cossack naval campaigns
DateAugust 1614
Location
Result Cossack victory
Territorial
changes
Destruction of Sinop by the Cossacks
Belligerents
Zaporozhian Cossacks Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Ottoman Empire Ahmed I
Ottoman Empire Nasuh Pasha
Ottoman Empire Ibrahim Pasha
Ottoman Empire Ali Pasha
Ottoman Empire Ahmet Pasha
Strength
2,000[1]
40 chaikas[2]
60 boats
(Blocking at Ochakov)[3]
Casualties and losses
200 killed[4][1]
20 captured[1][2]
18 boats sunk[4]
Entire garrison killed[2][4]
Thousands of Ottoman civilians killed
(Per 17th century chronicles)[5]

The Cossack raid on Sinop was a Cossack attack led by Cossack leader Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny with the goal of plundering a major Ottoman city on the shore of north Anatolia, which occurred on August 1614.[6]

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