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5 unusual facts about Crimean Khanate


Arbat Street

Some local historians explain this with reference to the frequent attacks of the Crimean Khanate on Moscow in the 15th and 16th centuries, linked with the fact that a large number of Arabic loan words had entered the Turkic languages, including Tatar by this point.

Bogdan III the One-Eyed

In the same year, Moldavia suffered two major Tatar devastations (they are alleged to have carried away 74,000 as slaves) — in 1511, the Tatars even managed to occupy most of the country.

Gabriel Báthory

Joined by Radu Mihnea of Wallachia, Crimean Tatars and another army from Hungary, they reached Transylvania in October.

Peter Tekeli

The Cossacks who lived in Zaporozhia were tasked in safeguarding the Russian Empire against the Crimean Khanate.

Slavyansk-na-Kubani

After the fall of the Genoese power in the Pontic region, the site was abandoned until 1747 when the Crimean Khanate erected a small fort, known in Russian sources as Kopyl.


De moribus tartarorum, lituanorum et moscorum

The work is neither a chronicle nor a travel book, but is rather a political essay which is critical of the author's motherland (Grand Duchy of Lithuania) and overly praises Muscovy and the Crimean Khanate for their centralized governments and united subjects.

Ieremia Movilă

The potential conflict with the country's Ottoman overlord was defused after the Poles negotiated an agreement with Sinan Pasha, although Moldavia was invaded by the Khan of Crimea and Ottoman vassal Ğazı II Giray.

Meir Ashkenazi

An envoy of the Khan of Crimea in the sixteenth century, Ashkenazi was killed by pirates on a voyage from Gava (near Genoa) to Dakhel (probably Dakhel or Dakleh in the western oasis of Upper Egypt), between the 15th and the 25th day of Tammuz (July), 1567.

Mihály Mikes

In 1658, Mikes unsuccessfully defended the line of Buzău River against the Ottoman-Tatar-Moldavian-Wallachian united army.

Mykhailo Doroshenko

He died on 31 May 1628, in a battle while his armies approached Bakhchisaray, the capital of the Crimean Khanate, in support to anti-Ottoman rebellers Mehmed III Giray and Shahin Giray besieged by Ottoman ally Khan Temir (predecessor of the famous ducal family of Cantemirs) in their capital.

Saray, Tekirdağ

In the 18th century when the Crimean Khanate fell to the Russians, the Giray family of the ruling Khans, descendants of Genghis Khan himself, were settled here by the Ottoman sultans.

Şehzade Ahmet

Although he was initially refused on the ground that Rumeli sanjaks were not offered to princes, with the support of the vassal Crimean khan Meñli I Giray (who was his father-in-law), he was able to receive the sanjak of Semendire (modern Smederevo in Serbia), which, although it was technically in Rumeli, was quite far from Istanbul nevertheless.


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Ayşe Hafsa Sultan

According to an alternative theory, the daughter of Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate was another consort of Selim I known as Ayşe Hatun, consequently the stepmother of Suleiman the Magnificent.

Nogais

The Kalmyks expelled the Nogais who fled to the northern Caucasian plains and to the Crimean Khanate, areas under the control of the Ottoman Empire.