Siege of Bar (1550)
| Siege of Bar | |||||||
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| Part of the Polish-Moldavian Wars and Polish-Ottoman Wars | |||||||
Bar on the map of Zygmunt Herstmann | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Kingdom of Poland |
Moldavia Wallachia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Bernard Pretwicz Dmytro Vyshnevetsky Mikołaj Sieniawski | Unknown Moldavian commander (POW) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | 5,000 men | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Likely light |
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The Siege of Bar was a siege of a Polish garrison led by Bernard Pretwicz in the fortress Bar (now Ukraine) by Moldavian-Wallachian army that took place in February of 1550.
Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered Moldavians to attack Podolia, possibly to capture Bernard Pretwicz. They attacked the region and besieged Bar, the siege however failed and the Romanian army withdrew to Ottoman Empire, but at the same time Pretwicz was soon deposed from the seat of starosta in Bar, ending a series of his military campaigns.