Battle of Cetate

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The Battle of Cetate was an 1854 engagement of the Crimean War in which Ottoman and Russian forces clashed near the village of Cetate in Wallachia as part of the struggle for control along the Danube frontier.

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Battle of Cetate canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf battle
military engagement
belligerent Ottoman Empire
Russian Empire
chronology early phase of the Crimean War
combatant Ottoman forces
Russian forces
conflict Crimean War
countryAtTime Ottoman Empire
date 1854
followedBy continued Danube operations in 1854
hasCause struggle for control along the Danube frontier
location Mangalia
surface form: Cetate

Danubian frontier
surface form: Danube frontier

Wallachia
militaryTheater Danubian front of the Crimean War
surface form: Balkan theater of the Crimean War
near Danube
surface form: Danube River
opponent Ottoman Empire
Russian Empire
partOf Danube campaign
surface form: Danube campaign of the Crimean War

operations for control of the Danube
precededBy Russian occupation of the Danubian Principalities in 1853
surface form: Russian occupation of the Danubian Principalities
region present-day Romania
result inconclusive
usedFor defense of the Danube line

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Danube campaign hasPart Battle of Cetate
Battle of Oltenitza followedBy Battle of Cetate