Crimean Khanate
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Crimean Khanate Sörgendәge Qəryəm hakimiyate | |||||||||
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| 1441–1856 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Bağcə-Sarâj | ||||||||
| Common languages | Crimean Ottoman Turkish | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Crimean | ||||||||
| Government | Representative democracy | ||||||||
| 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 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