Battle of Zhvanets

Battle of Zhvanets
	Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising
	; Plan of the Zhvanets Castle in the present-day of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine
Date	September — 16 December, 1653
Location	Zhvanets, Volhynian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Result	Inconclusive
Belligerents
Cossack Hetmanate ; Crimean Khanate	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Bohdan Khmelnytsky ; İslâm III Giray	John II Casimir
Strength
30,000–40,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks ; 20,000–35,000 Crimean Tatars	approximately 30,000 soldiers of the crown army, unknown number of Pospolite Ruszenie; 3,000 Transylvanian and Moldavian soldiers
Casualties and losses
Light	no data available (many died of starvation and disease)

The Battle of Zhvanets or the siege of Zhvanets (Ukrainian: Битва під Жванцем, Жванецька облога, Polish: Bitwa pod Żwańcem, Oblężenie Żwańca; September — 16 December, 1653) was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day village of Zhvanets in Ukraine, a forces of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Khan İslâm III Giray defeated and successfully besieged the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces under the command of the Polish King John II Casimir. The siege ended with a unsatisfactory outcome and the Poles and Lithuanians agreed to renew the Treaty of Zboriv which was signed in 18 August 1649.

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