Polish_Legion_in_Turkey

Polish Legion in Turkey

Polish Legion in Turkey

Polish people who fought on the side of the Ottomans in the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War

This article is about the Polish forces in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). For other uses, see Polish Legions.

The Polish Legion in Turkey (Polish: Legion Polski w Turcji, Turkish: Türkiye'deki Polonya Lejyonu) was a military force formed in Istanbul by emigrants from Partitioned Poland to fight with the Ottoman Army in the Russo-Turkish War that lasted from 1877 to 1878. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the unit consisted of around 20,000 troops.[1]

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It was divided into two branches: European and Asian. The Asian division fought on the Caucasian front. The European branch, with about 70 people under the command of Józef Jagmin, became part of the division under Salha Pasha.[2] The legion partook in the Battle of Eski Zagra in Bulgaria, where many legionnaires, including Jagmin, died.

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  1. [1]
    Walerian Skorobohaty KRASINSKI (Count.) (1854). Russia, Poland, and Europe; or, the inevitable consequences of the present war. A sequel to the pamphlet entitled "Russia and Europe." Third thousand. pp. 39–.
  2. [2]
    Mała Encyklopedia Wojskowa, Warsaw, 1970, vol. II.
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