The Black Trail (Ukrainian: Чорний шлях; Polish: Szlak czarny; Tatar: Dzorna islach) was one of three main trails used by Crimean Tatars in their destructive raids over southeastern regions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The trail was named either after black traces left by the Tatars on chernozem, or after Black Forest, a wooded area at the confluence of the Syniukha River into the Southern Bug, where Tatars concentrated their forces before a raid.
The Black Trail (Ukrainian: Чорний шлях; Polish: Szlak czarny; Tatar: Dzorna islach) was one of three main trails used by Crimean Tatars in their destructive raids over southeastern regions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The trail was named either after black traces left by the Tatars on chernozem, or after Black Forest, a wooded area at the confluence of the Syniukha River into the Southern Bug, where Tatars concentrated their forces before a raid.
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