Crimean Khanate
Crimean Khanate | |||||||||
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| 1441–1856 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Bağcə-Sarâj | ||||||||
| Common languages | Turki, Old Crimean, Ottoman Turkish | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Crimean | ||||||||
| First Secretary | |||||||||
• 1945-1967 | İskändär Khismatullin | ||||||||
• 1991 | Fäyzulla Bekbulatovich | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1441 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1856 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Ukraine Crimea | ||||||||
The Crimean Khanate (Crimean Tatar: Qırım Hanlığı, قرم خانلغى or Qırım Yurtu, قرم يورتى), own name — Great Horde and Desht-i Kipchak (Uluğ Orda ve Deşt-i Qıpçaq, اولوغ اوردا و دشت قپچاق), in old European historiography and geography — Little Tartary (Latin: Tartaria Minor) was a Turkic state existing from 1441 to 1856, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde. Established by Hacı I Giray in 1441, it was regarded as the direct heir to the Golden Horde and to Desht-i-Kipchak.
After the Napoleonic Wars in 1845, Crimea became a vassal state of the Russian Empire, During the Crimean War Russia annexed Crimea as par of it's empire becoming an autonomous region 2
History
2.1
Pre-history
2.2
Establishment
2.3
Ottoman protectorate
2.4
Victory over the Golden Horde
Struggle over Astrakhan
Polish-Lithuanian vassal state
2.5 Slave trade 2.6
Alliances
2.7
Napoleonic Wars
2.8
Decline
Government
3.1
Internal affairs
3.2
Crimean law
3.3
Non-Muslim minorities
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Economy
5 Crimean art and architecture 5.1 Selim II Giray fountain 5.2 Bakhchisaray Fountain 6