File:Ukrainian cossacks conquer Feodosia.png

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Ukrainian cossacks under the leadership of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Konashevych-Sahaidachny" class="extiw" title="w:Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny">Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny</a> capture the Turkish sea-port of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodosia" class="extiw" title="w:Feodosia">Caffa (Feodosia)</a> in 1615. This city was the largest Turkish centre for the human slave trade, and the capture by the cossacks enabled many Christian men, women and children to be freed from a life of slavery. Woodcut from a 1622 book commemorating Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny.

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current20:56, 2 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 20:56, 2 January 20171,778 × 1,780 (1.59 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)Ukrainian cossacks under the leadership of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Konashevych-Sahaidachny" class="extiw" title="w:Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny">Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny</a> capture the Turkish sea-port of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodosia" class="extiw" title="w:Feodosia">Caffa (Feodosia)</a> in 1615. This city was the largest Turkish centre for the human slave trade, and the capture by the cossacks enabled many Christian men, women and children to be freed from a life of slavery. Woodcut from a 1622 book commemorating Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny.
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