Battle of Blue Waters

The Battle of Blue Waters[a] was fought at some time in the autumn of 1362 or 1363 on the banks of the Syniukha River, a left tributary of the Southern Bug, between the armies of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Golden Horde.After the death of its ruler Berdi Beg Khan in 1359 the Golden Horde experienced a series of succession disputes and wars that lasted two decades (1359–81).Such attacks had little effect and the Lithuanians and Ruthenians, armed with spears and swords, moved forward and broke the front lines of the Tatar army.[5] The victory brought Kiev and a large part of present-day Ukraine, including sparsely populated Podolia and Dykra, under the control of the expanding Grand Duchy of Lithuania.As such, the Tale is a piece of political propaganda written to support Lithuanian claims to Podolia and exalt the virtues of Karijotas's sons rather than give an accurate account of the military campaign.Polish historian Stefan Maria Kuczyński produced a dedicated study Sine Wody in 1965; Lithuanian Romas Batūra published Lietuva tautų kovoje prieš Aukso ordą.
Map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , at its greatest extent from the 13th to 15th centuries.
2012 commemorative stamp issued in Lithuania
2012 stamp of Ukraine dedicated to the Battle of Blue Waters
Great TroublesSyniukha RiverPrincipality of KievGrand Duchy of LithuaniaGolden HordeAlgirdasFyodor KoriatovychAbdallahDemetriusLithuanian–Muscovite WarSary-AkaMuscovite–Volga Bulgars warPyana RiverVozha RiverKulikovoKalka RiverMoscowSouthern BugBerdi BegBattle on the Irpin RiverDnieperPrincipality of ChernigovBryanskBystraya Sosna RiverDon RiverPrincipality of PereyaslavlNew SaraiPodoliaTorhovytsiaUkrainianviceroy, regentMaciej StryjkowskiLithuaniansRutheniansKarijotasNaugardukasUkraineBlack Seahis son VladimirGrand Duchy of MoscowFyodorLithuaniaLithuanian ChroniclesLithuanian Civil War (1432–38)political propagandaTomas BaranauskasBattle of KulikovoJan DługoszKropyvnytskyiVytautas Magnus UniversityNational bank of BelarusLithuanianBelarusianBaranauskas, TomasVeidasPelenski, Jaroslaw