The conflict formally lasted eighteen years, but during this time hostilities were ceased on several occasions due to temporary treaties being signed between the warring parties.

After the Fall of Constantinople (1453), the Ottomans directed their expansion northwards towards the lower Danube and behind the mighty river and also threatened Poland.

Its army was made of Polish Crown forces, aided by a number of foreign mercenaries, 400 Teutonic Knights under Grand Master Johann von Tieffen and a 600-strong unit from Mazovia.

[3] Polish units of the pospolite ruszenie gathered in May to June 1497 in Podolia, and in early August, the army crossed the Dniestr River and entered Moldavia.

[4] This took place in spring 1498: after crossing the Dniestr, the invaders ransacked Red Ruthenia, capturing as much as a hundred thousand people and reaching as far as Przeworsk.

On August 15, 1499, Stephen III accepted the truce, and on October 9, 1503, King Alexander I Jagiellon signed a five-year peace treaty with Sultan Bayezid II.