Tighina Fortress (the old fort) (Bender)

Moldova / Tighina / Bender
 castle, museum, citadel, cultural heritage / national heritage, listed building / architectural heritage, historic site
This is the old mediaeval fort of Tighina Fortress, which was first built in the 15-16'th Centuries by the princes of Moldavia. Occupied by the Ottomans in 1538 (in a campaign lead by the Sultan Soliman the Magnificent), the fort was strenghtened in 1541 and became the center of an Ottoman "raya" (in which were included the surrounding Moldavian villages). Its walls and rounded towers still stand today.

Bendery fortress is located on the banks of the Dniester River. The author is a Turkish architect Sinan ibn Abdul Menan. Built in 1540, expanded and repeatedly strengthened during the XVI - XVIII centuries.
Bendery fortress was a kind of Turkish stronghold in the Moldovan lands. Its walls more than once were stormed by the Cossack detachments of the hetmans Sverchevsky, Kunitsky, Ivan Horseshoe, Loboda and Nalyvayko. In a number of Russian-Turkish wars of the 18th and 19th centuries, the fortress became the place and arena of the joint struggle of peoples against Turkish rule and was taken three times by Russian troops. For the first time its bastions were conquered by the Russian army under the leadership of General-in-Chief P.I.Panin in 1770. On November 4, 1789, the Turkish garrison of the fortress capitulated to the Russian troops of Prince A.А.Potemkin-Tavrichesky who besieged it. On November 24, 1806, the Turkish garrison surrendered the fortress to Major General K.I. Meyendorf without a fight.
Emelyan Pugachev, the future representative of the peasant uprising, the heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812, M.I. Kutuzov, M. B. Barklay-de-Tolly, J.P. Kulnev, showed courage and bravery at its walls, and its history is connected with the names of such prominent historical figures. as IP Kotlyarevsky, Decembrist F. Rayevsky. Under cover of Turkish artillery, the Swedish king Karl XII and his ally Hetman Mazepa fled from under Poltava to the Bender fortress from Poltava. Here Mazepa soon died, and the “Benderse seat” of Charles XII lasted 4 years from 1709 to 1713.
During the 19th century, the Bendery fortress served as a stronghold of the Russian army.
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Coordinates:   46°50'16"N   29°29'14"E

Comments

  • Бендерская крепость, короче
  • ne ottomans a osmany turki koroche
  • Cetatea Tighina - temporar sub copita soldatului rus
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