Construction of Fortresses

in the campaign “Azov Campaigns and Fortress Construction (1695–1700)”

The deployment of a network of military bases (Novobohorodytska, Kamianyi Zaton) near the Zaporozhian Sich. Under the pretext of protection, Moscow was establishing rigid military control: "The Zaporozhians... put forward the destruction of Kamianyi Zaton as a condition for any oath of allegiance"[1][2].

ID: C0010.T0139
Start: January 1695
End: December 1700
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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