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Article: Russo-Ottoman Wars (1710–1711; 1736–1739; 1768–1774; 1787
Article from:Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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RUSSO-OTTOMAN WARS (1710
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1711; 1736
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1739; 1768
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1774; 1787
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1792)
RUSSO-OTTOMAN WARS
(1710
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1711; 1736
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1739; 1768
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1774; 1787
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1792). The first Russo-Ottoman War of the eighteenth century occurred during the expansion era of Peter I, also known as Peter the Great (ruled 1682
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1725), who stopped paying tribute to the Khan of the Crimea, an Ottoman vassal, when he became tsar in 1683. He staged attacks on the Perekop Isthmus in the 1680s and Azov in 1695 because the Russians viewed the Crimea as a haven for Tatars who continually raided Russian areas to seize captives, property, and livestock. In 1696, Peter mounted the first ...