Crimean Khanate
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Was a Crimean Tatar state, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde. After intermittent periods of Ottoman vassalage, it was the Russian Empire that annexed the Khanate.
Establishment
January 1431: The Crimean Khanate was founded in 1428 and soon after obtained from the Lithuanians the right of suzerainty over Yedisan, from where the Moldavians were to withdraw their garrisons and fleet.
Chronology
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Wars during the rule of Mehmed II in the Ottoman Sultanate.
January 1479: In 1478 the Crimean Khanate recognized Ottoman suzerainty.
January 1450: In 1449, Hacı I Giray seized Crimea from Sayid Ahmad I, and founded the Crimean Khanate.
January 1453: Ulugh Muhammad was a prominent ruler of the Golden Horde. His son, Qasim Khan, sought refuge in Moscow and was granted land by Vasily II, establishing the Qasim Khanate in 1452. This territory was located in the modern-day Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
January 1467: After 1466, Mahmud bin Küchük's descendants continued to rule in Astrakhan as the khans of the Astrakhan Khanate.
January 1476: An attack by Akhmat Khan (Khan of the Golden Horde 1465-81) forced Crimean Khan Meñli to flee to the Ottoman Empire.
January 1479: In 1478 the Crimean Khanate recognized Ottoman suzerainty.
January 1625: In 1624, an unsuccessful uprising against the Ottoman Sultan was led by Khan Mehmed I Giray of the Crimean Khanate.
Disestablishment
January 1629: In 1624, an unsuccessful uprising was led by Khan Mehmed IV Giray against the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV. However, in 1628, Khan Mehmed IV Giray submitted once again to the Ottoman Empire, solidifying the Crimean Khanate's allegiance to the Ottomans.
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