Mirza Tughai Bey, Tuhay Bey ( crh, Toğay bey; pl, Tuhaj-bej;

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: ''Тугай-бей'') sometimes also spelled as Togay Bey (died June 1651) was a notable military leader and politician of the

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Biography

Toğay descended from the Arğıns - one of noble Crimean families, and his full name is ''Arğın Doğan Toğay bey'' (Arhyn Dohan Tohai bei). " Bey" is actually a title, which he received on becoming the chief of Or Qapı ( Perekop) ''

sanjak Sanjaks (liwāʾ) (plural form: alwiyāʾ) * Armenian: նահանգ (''nahang''; meaning "province") * Bulgarian: окръг (''okrǔg''; meaning "county", "province", or "region") * el, Διοίκησις (''dioikēsis'', meaning "province" ...

'', an important position in the

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, since the Isthmus of Perekop is the neck to

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and was crucial to its defense. Tuhay Bey became the bey of Or Qapı sometime between 1642 and 1644, an important position of the

who was in charge of Or Qapı fortress - the gateway to the peninsula. By 1644 he had enough authority for the

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of Crimea to entrust to him leadership of the major Tatar expedition against Poland. However, Tuhay Bey's army was intercepted by the Polish army under

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Koniecpolski before reaching the densely populated regions of Ukraine and defeated in the First Battle of Okhmativ. In 1648 he brought an army (estimated 6,000-20,000) to help

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern ua, Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький; 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian military commander and ...

during the Cossack uprising against the

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. There he took part in several important battles and was eventually killed during the Battle of Berestechko.Serczyk, page 339 He was portrayed in the Polish novel and film '' With Fire and Sword''. In the film he was played by

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. Henryk Sienkiewicz made a character in his third novel "

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" - Tuhay Bey's son -

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. He was played in the film "

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" from 1969 by

. File:Matejko_Khmelnytsky_with_Tugay_Bey.jpg, An imagined painting of "

with Tuhay Bey at

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", oil on canvas by

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, 1885. File:Spotkanie z Tuhaj Bejem 2.jpg, Tugai Bey leads the

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

cavalry.

References

Bibliography

* Podhorodecki, L. ''Chanat krymski i jego stosunki z Polską w 15-18 w''. Warsaw, 1987. * Serczyk, W.A. ''Na płonącej Ukrainie. Dzieje Kozaczyzny 1648-1651''. Warsaw, 1998. * Holobutsky, V. ''Zaporizhian Cossackdom''. "Vyshcha shkola". Kiev, 1994. (http://litopys.org.ua/holob/hol.htm) 1651 deaths Crimean Tatar politicians Crimean Khanate 17th-century soldiers 17th-century births {{Ukraine-bio-stub