Astrakhan Khanate
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Khanate of Astrakhan | |||||||||||
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1466–1556 | |||||||||||
Darwish Ghali | |||||||||||
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• Established | 1466 | ||||||||||
• Russian conquest | 1556 | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Russia |
The Khanate of Astrakhan was a
Mahmud bin Küchük established the Khanate in the 1460s. The capital was the city of Xacitarxan, also known as Astrakhan in Russian chronicles. Its territory included the Lower Volga valley and the Volga Delta, including most of what is now Astrakhan Oblast and the steppeland on the right bank of Volga in present-day Kalmykia. To the south was the Caspian Sea, to the east the Nogai Horde, and to the west Nogais who were theoretically subjects of the Crimean Khanate.
Before the Khanate
The area was a natural center since it was the intersection of the north–south trade route down the Volga to Persia and the east–west trade route north of the Caspian. From the sixth century it was populated by various
Demography and society
Most of the population of the Astrakhan khanate were
The nobility consisted of feudal ranks, which were, from highest to lowest: the
The state religion was
History
OIRATS
The Astrakhan khanate is poorly documented. According to Frank "The dates and activities of these rulers are faintly represented in the sources, when they are represented at all." About all we have is an imperfect khan list with uncertain regnal dates and a few military and diplomatic events and traveler's reports. The capital was Xacitarxan, which the Russians called Astrakhan, 12 km north of modern Astrakhan. After the conquest, the town and name were moved to the present location.[citation needed]
The khanate is said to have been founded 1466
See also
- Astrakhan Tatars
- List of Khans of Astrakhan
- List of Sunni Muslim dynasties
Notes
References
- ^ Welsford 2012, p. 37.
- ^ In 1466, Mahmud bin Küchük sent a letter to the sultan claiming the area as his patrimony (Frank, page 253). This may be the source of the 1466 date.
- ^ Janet Martin, Medieval Russia:980-1584, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 356
Sources
- Henry Hoyle Howorth (1880) History of the Mongols, part 2, pp. 349–362.
- Allen J. Frank (2009) Cambridge History of Inner Asia, pp. 253–255.