Crimean khanate
| Crimean Khanate | ||||||||||||
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قرم خانلغى Kırım Hanlığı |
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| Vassal of the Ottoman Empire (1478–1774) | ||||||||||||
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 the Crimean Khanate in 1600
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| Capital |
Stary Krym Bakhchisaray |
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| Languages | Turkic (Crimean Tatar, Ottoman Turkish) | |||||||||||
| Religion | Islam | |||||||||||
| Government | Hereditary monarchy | |||||||||||
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| • | 1449–1466 | Hacı I Giray (First) | ||||||||||
| • | 1777–1783 | Şahin Giray (last) | ||||||||||
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| • | Established | 1449 | ||||||||||
| • | Annexed by Russia | 1783 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Ukraine Russia Moldova
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The Crimean Khanate (Karimia Khanate) (Mongolian: Крымын ханлиг; Crimean Tatar/Turkish: Qırım Hanlığı, Къырым Ханлыгъы قرم خانلغى or Qırım Yurtu, Къырым Юрту قرم يورتى; Russian: Крымское ханство, Krymskoje hanstvo; Ukrainian: Кримське ханство Krymśke chanstvo; Polish: Chanat Krymski) was a Turkic vassal state of the Ottoman Empire from 1478 to 1774, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde. Established by Hacı I Giray in 1449, the Crimean khans were the patrilineal descendants of Toqa Temür, thirteenth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan through marriage; Temür married one of Genghis Khan's grand daughters. The khanate was located in present-day Russia and Ukraine.
Ottoman forces under Gedik Ahmet Pasha conquered all of the Crimean peninsula and joined it to the khanate in 1475. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Crimean Khanate was an important center of the slave trade. In 1774, it was released as a nationally independent state, following the Russo-Turkish Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, and formally annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783, becoming the Taurida Governorate.
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