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Events on Thursday 17 September 1620 1
1620Battle of CecoraOttoman and Tatar forces defeat a Polish-Lithuanian army in MoldaviaAn Ottoman and Crimean Tatar army destroyed a Polish-Lithuanian expeditionary force near the Prut River in Moldavia. Grand Hetman Stanislaw Zolkiewski was killed covering the retreat, and the defeat opened the way for a much larger Ottoman invasion of the Commonwealth the following year. It was the opening engagement of the Polish-Ottoman War of 1620-1621.