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{{Short description|1441–1783 Crimean Tatar state}}
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| native_name = Crimean Tatar: {{lang|crh|{{lang|crh-Latn|Taht-ıi Qırım ve Deşt-i Qıpçaq}}|lead=off}}<br />{{native Dobrujanname|crh|{{crh|||تخت Tatar:قريم تَهْتِو قِرِمْدشت وَ دَشْتِ قِپْچَاقْقپچاق|lead=off}}}}
<br>{{small|(''Taht-î Kîrîm we Deşt-í Kîpşak'')}}<br />Old Crimean Tatar: تخت قريم و دشت قپچاق
| conventional_long_name = {{nowrap|Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak}}
| common_name = Crimean Khanate
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| p2 = Principality of Theodoro
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| symbol_type symbol_type2 = -->[[Coat of arms of Crimea|Coat of arms]]<br />{{nowrap|(17th–18th century)}}
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| image_map_caption = The khanateCrimean inKhanate 1550in (green)1502
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*[[Chufut-Kale|Orda-i muazzam Kirkyir]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm ansiklopedisi|volume=14|year=1996|page=77|language=tr}}</ref>
*[[StaryStaryi Krym|Eski Qırım]]
*[[Bakhchysarai|Bağçasaray]]}}
| religion = [[Sunni Islam]]
| demonym = [[Crimean]]
| common_languages = {{unbulleted list|[[Kipchak languages|Kipchak dialects]] ([[Old Crimean Tatar]])|[[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]]|Language of literature — [[Chagatai language]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/chaghatay-language-and-literature|quote=Ebn Mohannā (Jamāl-al-Dīn, fl. early 8th/14th century, probably in Khorasan), for instance, characterized it as the purest of all Turkish languages (Doerfer, 1976, p. 243), and the khans of the Golden Horde (Radloff, 1870; Kurat; Bodrogligeti, 1962) and of the Crimea (Kurat), as well as the Kazan Tatars (Akhmetgaleeva; Yusupov), wrote in Chaghatay much of the time. |title=CHAGHATAYChaghatay LANGUAGELanguage ANDand Literature LITERATURE|encyclopedia=Iranica}}</ref>}}
| today = {{ubl|[[Moldova]]<br>|[[Russia]]<br>|[[Ukraine]]}}
| currency = [[Akçe]]
}}
 
The '''Crimean Khanate''',{{efn|{{lang|crh|Qırım Hanlığı}}, قِرِمْ قَآنْلِغِ (''Kîrîm Kanlîgî''), {{lang|crh-Arab|قریم خانلغى|rtl=yesخانلیغی}}.}} self-defined as the '''Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak''',<ref>{{cite book|url=https://folio.com.ua/system/books/samples/000/000/237/original/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE.pdf?1536370638|page=11|title=Загадки Истории Крымское Ханство|language=ru|author=Andriy Domanovsky|year=2017}}</ref>{{efn|{{lang|crh|{{lang|crh-Latn|Taht-i Qırım ve Deşt-i Qıpçaq}}, |تخت قريم و دشت قپچاق}}. <br/>Other names include: {{lang|crh-Latn|Ulu(g) Orda}} {{|lit|=Great Horde|lead=no}}; {{lang|crh-Latn|Ulu(g) yurt}} {{|lit|=Great yurt|lead=no}}; {{lang|crh-Latn|Qırım yurt}} {{|lit|=Crimean yurt|lead=no}}.}} and in old European historiography and geography known as '''Little Tartary''',{{efn|{{lang-la|Tartaria Minor}}.}}, was a [[Crimean Tatars|Crimean Tatar]] state existing from 1441 - 17831441–1783, 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 [[Cumania|Desht-i-Kipchak]].<ref>Протоколы посланий первых лиц Крымского юрта и договорных грамот ханской канцелярии. Из писем ханов Ислам-Гирея III и Мухаммед-Гирея IV к царю Алексею Михайловичу и королю Яну Казимиру [http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/Krym/XVII/1640-1660/Muchammed_Girej_IV/framepred.htm "…Я, великий хан Ислам-Гирей, великий падишах Великой Орды и Великого Юрта, Дешт-Кыпчака, и престольного Крыма, и всех ногаев, и неисчислимых войск, и татов с тавгачами, и горных черкесов, да поможет Ему Аллах оставаться победителем до Судного дня, от Их величества]</ref><ref>Зайцев И. В., Орешкова С. Ф. Османский мир и османистика стр. 259</ref>
 
In 1783, violating the 1774 [[Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca]] (which had guaranteed non-interference of both Russia and the [[Ottoman Empire]] in the affairs of the Crimean Khanate), the [[Russian Empire]] [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire|annexed]] the khanate. Among the European powers, only France came out with an open protest against this act, due to the longstanding [[Franco-Ottoman alliance]].<ref>
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| url = https://mgimo.ru/about/news/main/249710/
| title = Крым: страницы истории
|location= М.Moscow |date = 1994 |publisher= SvR-Аргус
| isbn = 5-86949-003-0
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==Naming and geography==
[[File:De Landschappen der Percoptize en Nogaize Tartares, Circassen, P Van der Aa (Leiden, 1707).jpg|thumb|The map of the Crimean Khanate by [[Pieter van der Aa]], 1707]]
The Crimean khansKhans, considering their state as the heir and legal successor of the [[Golden Horde]] and [[Desht-i Kipchak]], called themselves khans of "the Great Horde, the Great State and the Throne of the Crimea". The full title of the Crimean khans, used in official documents and correspondence with foreign rulers, varying slightly from document to document during the three centuries of the khanateKhanate's existence, was as follows: "By the Grace and help of the blessed and highest Lord, the great padishah of the Great Horde, and the Great State, and the Throne of the Crimea, and all the Nogai, and the mountain Circassians, and the tats and tavgachs, and The Kipchak steppe and all the Tatars" ({{lang-crh|{{lang|crh-Latn|Tañrı Tebareke ve Ta’alânıñTa'alânıñ rahimi ve inayeti milen Uluğ Orda ve Uluğ Yurtnıñ ve taht-ı Qırım ve barça Noğaynıñ ve tağ ara Çerkaçnıñ ve Tat imilen Tavğaçnıñ ve Deşt-i Qıpçaqnıñ ve barça Tatarnıñ uluğ padişahı}}, {{lang|crh-Arab|تنكرى تبرك و تعالينيڭ رحمى و عنايتى ميلان اولوغ اوردا و اولوغ يورتنيڭ و تخت قريم و بارچا نوغاينيڭ و طاغ ارا چركاچنيڭ و تاد يميلان طوگاچنيڭ و دشت قپچاقنيڭ و بارچا تاتارنيڭ يولوغ پادشاهى|rtl=yes}}}}).<ref>Documents of the Crimean khanate from the collection of Huseyn Feyzkhanov / comp. and the transliteration. R. R. Abdujalilov; scientific. edited by I. Mingaleev. – Simferopol: LLC "Konstanta". - 2017. – 816 p. {{ISBN|978-5-906952-38-7}}</ref><ref>Sagit Faizov. Letters of khans Islam Giray III and Muhammad Giray IV to Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich and kingKing Jan Kazimir, 1654–1658: Crimean Tatar diplomacy in polit. post-Pereyaslav context. time – Moscow: Humanitarii, 2003. – 166 p. {{ISBN|5-89221-075-8}}</ref>
 
According to Oleksa Hayvoronsky, the inhabitants of the Crimean Khanate in Crimean Tatar usually referred to their state as "Qırım yurtu, Crimean Yurt", which can be translated into English as "the country of Crimea" or "Crimean country".<ref>Gaivoronsky Oleksa. The Country Of Crimea. Essays on the monuments of the history of the Crimean khanateKhanate. Simferopol: FL ablaeva N. F., 2016–336 p. {{ISBN|978-5-600-01505-0}}</ref><ref>Oleksa Gaivoronsky. Lords of two continentsContinents, volume 1, Kyiv-Bakhchysarai, 2007 {{ISBN|978-966-96917-1-2}}</ref>
 
{{anchor|Little Tartary}}
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[[File:Khazarfall1.png|thumb|240px|The [[Pontic steppe]]s, {{circa|lk=no|1015}}]]
The first known [[Turkic peoples]] appeared in Crimea in the 6th century, during the conquest of the Crimea by [[Western Turkic Khaganate|The Turkic Kaganate]].<ref>''The Crimea. Great historical guide''. Alexander Andreev publishing house Liters 2014</ref>{{page needed|date=July 2020}} In the 11th century, [[Cumans]] (Kipchaks) appeared in Crimea; they later became the ruling and state-forming people of the Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate.<ref>[http://history-doc.ru/zolotaya-orda-i-slavyane/ "the Turkic peoples are becoming not only the ruling, but also the state-forming people"] – the Golden Horde and the Slavs</ref> In the middle of the 13th century, the northern steppe lands of the Crimea, inhabited mainly by [[Turkic peoples]] ([[Cumans]]), became the possession of Ulus [[Juchi]], known as the [[Golden Horde]] or Ulu Ulus. In this era, the role of Turkic peoples increased.<ref>R. I. Kurteev, K. K. Choghoshvili. The ethnic term "Tatars" and the ethnic group "Crimean Tatars". - Through the ages: the peoples of the Crimea. Issue 1 \ Ed. N. Nikolaenko-Simferopol: Academy of Humanities, 1995</ref> Around this time, the local Kipchaks took the name of [[Tatars]] (''tatarlar'').<ref>see [[Codex Cumanicus]]</ref>{{sfn|Garkavets|2007|pp=69–70}}<ref name="codex">{{cite book| author = Géza Lajos László József Kuun, Budapest Magyar Tudományos Akadémia | url = https://archive.org/details/codexcumanicusbi00kuunuoft | title = Codex cumanicus, Bibliothecae ad templum divi Marci Venetiarum primum ex integro editit prolegomenis notis et compluribus glossariis instruxit comes Géza Kuun |date = 1880 |publisher= Budapestini Scient. Academiae Hung }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author = Michel Balard |url= https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=30612247 |title= Генуя и Золотая Орда |journal= Zolotoordynskai︠a︡ T︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡ii︠a︡|edition= Золотоордынская Цивилизация |year= 2017 |issue= 10 |pages = 105–112 |issn = 2308-1856 |eissn = 2409-0875 }}</ref>
 
In the Horde period, the khans of the Golden Horde were the Supreme rulers of the Crimea, but their governors – [[Emir]]s – exercised direct control. The first formally recognized ruler in the Crimea is considered [[Aran-Timur]], the nephew of [[Batu Khan]] of the Golden Horde, who received this area from [[Mengu-Timur]], and the first center of the Crimea was the ancient city [[Old Crimea|<span lang="crh">Qırım</span>]] (Solhat). This name then gradually spread to the entire Peninsula. The second center of Crimea was the valley adjacent to [[Chufut-Kale|<span lang="crh">Qırq Yer</span>]] and [[Bakhchysarai|<span lang="crh">Bağçasaray</span>]].
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Horde rule for the peoples who inhabited the Crimean Peninsula was, in general, painful. The rulers of the Golden Horde repeatedly organized punitive campaigns in the Crimea when the local population refused to pay tribute. An example is the well-known campaign of the [[Nogai Khan]] in 1299, which resulted in a number of Crimean cities suffering. As in other regions of the Horde, separatist tendencies soon began to manifest themselves in Crimea.
 
In 1303, in Crimea, the most famous written monument of the Kypchak or Cuman language was created (named in [[Kipchak language|Kypchak]] "tatar tili") – "[[Codex Cumanicus]]", which is the oldest memorial in the [[Crimean Tatar language]] and of great importance for the history of Kypchak and Oghuz dialects – as directly related to the Kipchaks of the [[Black Sea]] steppes and [[Crimea]].<ref name="Гаркавец">{{cite book| author = Гаркавец А. Н. | url = https://www.academia.edu/22460578 | title = Кыпчакские языки |location= [[Алма-Ата]] |date = 1987 |publisher= Наука | pagespage = 18}}</ref><ref name="codex" />
[[File:Мавзолей Джанике-ханым.jpg|thumb|right|[[Türbe|Dürbe]] of [[Canike Hanım]]]]
 
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===Establishment===
The Crimean Khanate originated in the early 15th century when certain clans of the [[Golden Horde]] Empire ceased their nomadic life in the [[Desht-i Kipchak]] (Kypchak [[Steppe]]s of today's [[Ukraine]] and southern Russia) and decided to make Crimea their ''yurt'' (homeland). At that time, the Golden Horde of the Mongol empire had governed the Crimean peninsula as an [[Orda (organization)|ulus]] since 1239, with its capital at Qirim ([[Staryi Krym]]). The local separatists invited a [[Genghisid]] contender for the Golden Horde throne, [[Hacı I Giray|Hacı Giray]], to become their [[Khan (title)|khan]]. Hacı Giray accepted their invitation and traveledtravelled from exile in [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania|Lithuania]]. He warred for independence against the Horde from 1420 to 1441, in the end achieving success. But Hacı Giray then had to fight off internal rivals before he could ascend the throne of the khanate in 1449, after which he moved its capital to ''Qırq Yer'' (today part of [[Bakhchisaray|Bahçeseray]]).<ref>[http://www.hansaray.org.ua/e_ist_devlet.html Bakhchisaray history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106132743/http://www.hansaray.org.ua/e_ist_devlet.html |date=2009-01-06 }} {{in lang|en}}</ref> The khanate included the [[Crimean Peninsula]] (except the south and southwest coast and ports, controlled by the [[Republic of Genoa]] & [[Perateia|Trebizond Empire]]) as well as the adjacent steppe.
 
===Ottoman protectorate===
[[File:Ottoman empire 1481-1683.jpg|thumb|Map of the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire]]
The sons of Hacı I Giray contended against each other to succeed him. The [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] intervened and installed one of the sons, [[Meñli I Giray]], on the throne. Menli I Giray, took the imperial title "Sovereign of Two Continents and Khan of Khans of Two Seas."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Saudi Aramco World : The Palace and the Poet|url=https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/201202/the.palace.and.the.poet.htm|access-date=2020-07-08|website=archive.aramcoworld.com}}</ref>
 
In 1475 the Ottoman forces, under the command of [[Gedik Ahmet Pasha]], conquered the Greek [[Principality of Theodoro]] and the Genoese colonies at [[Balaklava|Cembalo]], [[Sudak|Soldaia]], and [[Feodosiya|Caffa]] (modern Feodosiya). Thenceforth the khanate was a protectorate of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman sultan enjoyed veto power over the selection of new Crimean khans. The Empire annexed the Crimean coast but recognized the legitimacy of the khanate rule of the steppes, as the khans were descendants of [[Genghis Khan]].
[[File:Szigetvar 1566.jpg|thumb|180px|A miniature depicting the [[List of campaigns of Suleiman the Magnificent|Ottoman campaign]] in Hungary in 1566, with Crimean Tatars as vanguard]]
In 1475, the Ottomans imprisoned Meñli I Giray for three years for resisting the invasion. After returning from captivity in [[Constantinople]], he accepted the [[suzerainty]] of the Ottoman Empire. Nevertheless, Ottoman sultans treated the khans more as allies than subjects.<ref>Khan Palace in Bakhchisaray, [http://www.hansaray.org.ua/e_geray_ist.html The Giray Dynasty] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304184355/http://hansaray.org.ua/e_geray_ist.html |date=2016-03-04 }}, [[Bakhchisaray Palace|Hansaray]] Organization</ref> The khans continued to have a foreign policy independent from the Ottomans in the steppes of [[Little Tartary]]. The khans continued to mint coins and use their names in Friday prayers, two important signs of sovereignty. They did not pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire; instead the Ottomans paid them in return for their services of providing skilled outriders and frontline cavalry in their campaigns.<ref>Bennigsen</ref> Later on, Crimea lost power in this relationship as the result of a crisis in 1523, during the reign of Meñli's successor, [[Mehmed I Giray]]. He died that year and beginning with his successor, from 1524 on, Crimean khans were appointed by the Sultan.<ref>{{cite journal|last1= Yaşar|first1=Murat|last2=Oh|first2=Chong Jin|date=May 10, 2018|title=The Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate in the North Caucasus: A Case Study of Ottoman-Crimean Relations in the Mid-Sixteenth Century|url=https://brill.com/view/journals/thr/9/1/article-p86_86.xml|journal=Turkish Historical Review|volume=9|issue=1|pages=86–103|doi=10.1163/18775462-00901005|access-date=December 4, 2022}}</ref>
The alliance of the Crimean Tatars and the Ottomans was comparable to the [[Polish–Lithuanian union]] in its importance and durability.{{clarify|date=January 2016}} The Crimean cavalry became indispensable for the Ottomans' campaigns against [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth|Poland]], [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]], and [[Safavid Iran|Persia]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=WHKMLA : List of Wars of the Crimean Tatars|url=http://www.zum.de/whkmla/military/russia/milxcrimeantatars.html|access-date=2020-07-08|website=www.zum.de}}</ref>
 
===Victory over the Golden Horde===
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===Slave trade===
{{further|Black Sea slave trade|Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe}}
 
The slave trade was the backbone of the economy of the Crimean Khanate.<ref>Peter B. Brown, "Russian Serfdom's Demise and Russia's Conquest of the Crimean Khanate and the Northern Black Sea Littoral: Was There a Link?", in ''Eurasian Slavery, Ransom and Abolition in World History, 1200–1860''
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The Crimeans frequently mounted raids into the [[Danubian principalities]], [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Poland–Lithuania]], and [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovy]] to enslave people whom they could capture; for each captive, the khan received a fixed share (savğa) of 10% or 20%. These campaigns by Crimean forces were either {{lang|tr|sefers}} ("sojourns"), officially declared military operations led by the khans themselves, or ''çapuls'' ("despoiling"), raids undertaken by groups of noblemen, sometimes illegally because they contravened treaties concluded by the khans with neighbouring rulers.
 
For a long time, until the early 18th century, the khanate maintained a massive [[History of slavery|slave trade]] with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, exporting about 2 million slaves from Russia and Poland–Lithuania over the period 1500–1700, mainly into Ottoman Empire,<ref>Darjusz Kołodziejczyk, as reported by {{cite journal |author=Mikhail Kizilov |author-link=Mikhail Kizilov |title=Slaves, Money Lenders, and Prisoner Guards:The Jews and the Trade in Slaves and Captivesin the Crimean Khanate |url=https://www.academia.edu/3706285 |journal=The Journal of Jewish Studies|year=2007|volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=189–210 |doi=10.18647/2730/JJS-2007 }}</ref> [[Caffa]], an Ottoman city on Crimean peninsula (and thus not part of the Khanate), was one of the best known and significant trading ports and slave markets.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/slavery-sociology Historical survey > Slave societies]</ref><ref>[https://www.britannica.com/place/Feodosiya Caffa]</ref> In 1769, a last major Tatar raid resulted in the capture of 20,000 Russian and Ruthenian slaves.<ref name="slave trade"/>
 
Author and historian [[Brian Glyn Williams]] writes:
{{blockquote| Fisher estimates that in the sixteenth century the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth lost around 20,000 individuals a year and that from 1474 to 1694, as many as a million Commonwealth citizens were carried off into Crimean slavery.<ref>{{cite web |author=Brian Glyn Williams |title=The Sultan's Raiders: The Military Role of the Crimean Tatars in the Ottoman Empire |url=http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/Crimean_Tatar_-_complete_report_01.pdf |website=[[The Jamestown Foundation]] |date=2013 |page=27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021092115/http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/Crimean_Tatar_-_complete_report_01.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-21 }}</ref>}}
 
Early modern sources are full of descriptions of sufferings of Christian slaves captured by the Crimean Tatars in the course of their raids:
{{blockquote|It seems that the position and everyday conditions of a slave depended largely on his/her owner. Some slaves indeed could spend the rest of their days doing exhausting labor: as the Crimean ''vizir'' (minister) Sefer Gazi Aga mentions in one of his letters, the slaves were often “a"a plough and a scythe”scythe" of their owners. Most terrible, perhaps, was the fate of those who became [[galley]]-slaves, whose sufferings were poeticized in many Ukrainian ''dumas'' (songs). ... Both female and male slaves were often used for sexual purposes.<ref name="slave trade">{{cite journal |author=Mikhail Kizilov |author-link=Mikhail Kizilov |title=Slave Trade in the Early Modern Crimea From the Perspective of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources |url=https://www.academia.edu/2971600 |journal=[[Journal of Early Modern History]]|year=2007 |volume=11 |issue=1–2 |page=1 |doi=10.1163/157006507780385125 }}</ref>}}
 
===Alliances and conflicts with Poland and Zaporozhian Cossacks===
[[File:Józef Brandt - Potyczka Kozaków z Tatarami.jpg|thumb|250px|Tatars fighting [[Zaporozhian Cossacks]], by [[Józef Brandt]]]]
The Crimeans had a complex relationship with [[Zaporozhian Cossacks]] who lived to the north of the khanate in modern Ukraine. The Cossacks provided a measure of protection against Tatar raids for Poland–Lithuania and received subsidies for their service. They also raided Crimean and Ottoman possessions in the region. At times Crimean Khanate made alliances with the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and the [[Zaporizhian Sich]]. The assistance of [[İslâm III Giray]] during the [[Khmelnytsky Uprising]] in 1648 contributed greatly to the initial momentum of military successes for the Cossacks.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=Brian |title=Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500–1700 |date=4 April 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134552832978-1-134-55283-2 |pages=32, 104}}</ref> The relationship with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was also exclusive, as it was the home dynasty of the Girays, who sought sanctuary in Lithuania in the 15th century before establishing themselves on the Crimean peninsula.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kolodziejczyk|first=Dariusz|date=June 22, 2011|title=The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania|url=https://brill.com/display/title/15156|publisher=[[Brill Publishers|Brill]]|pages=637–646|isbn= 978-90-04-19190-7}}</ref>
 
===Struggle with Muscovy===
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In the middle of the 16th century, the Crimean Khanate asserted a claim to be the successor to the Golden Horde, which entailed asserting the right of rule over the Tatar khanates of the Caspian-Volga region, particularly the [[Kazan Khanate]] and [[Astrakhan Khanate]]. This claim pitted it against [[Tsardom of Russia|Muscovy]] for dominance in the region. A successful campaign by [[Devlet I Giray]] upon the Russian capital in 1571 culminated in the [[Fire of Moscow (1571)|burning of Moscow]], and he thereby gained the sobriquet, That Alğan (seizer of the throne).<ref>[http://www.economist.com/cities/printStory.cfm?obj_id=9141603&city_id=MCW Moscow – Historical background] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011214606/http://economist.com/cities/printStory.cfm?obj_id=9141603&city_id=MCW |date=2007-10-11 }}</ref> The following year, however, the Crimean Khanate lost access to the Volga once and for all due to its catastrophic defeat in the [[Battle of Molodi]].
 
[[Don Cossacks]] reached lower Don, [[Donets]] and [[Azov]] by the 1580s and thus became the north-eastern neighbours of the khanate. They attracted peasants, serfs and gentry fleeing internal conflicts, over-population and intensifying exploitation. Just as Zaporozhians protected the southern borders of the Commonwealth, Don Cossacks protected Muscovy and themselves attacked the khanate and Ottoman fortresses.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=Brian |title=Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500–1700 |date=4 April 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134552832978-1-134-55283-2 |pagespage=29}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Turchin |first1=P. |last2=Nefedov |first2=S. |author-link = Peter Turchin|title=Secular Cycles |year=2009 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-06911369670-691-13696-7|pagespage =257}}</ref>
 
===Relationship with Circassians===
 
Under the influence of the [[Crimean Tatars]] and of the [[Ottoman Empire]], large numbers of [[Circassians]] converted to [[Islam in Russia|Islam]]. Circassian mercenaries and recruits played an important role in the khan's armies, khans often married Circassian women and it was a custom for young Crimean princes to spend time in Circassia training in the art of warfare.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Brian Glyn |title=The Crimean Tatars: The Diaspora Experience and the Forging of a Nation |date=2001 |publisher=BRILBrill |isbn=9789004121225978-90-04-12122-5 |page=198}}</ref> Several conflicts occurred between Circassians and Crimean Tatars in the 18th century, with the former defeating an army of Khan [[Qaplan I Giray|Kaplan Giray]] and Ottoman auxiliaries in the [[battle of Kanzhal]].<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Kármán |editor1-first=Gábor |title=Tributaries and Peripheries of the Ottoman Empire |date=2020 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004430600978-90-04-43060-0}}</ref>
 
===Decline===
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The [[Turkish people|Turkish]] traveler writer [[Evliya Çelebi]] mentions the impact of [[Cossack]] raids from [[Azak]] upon the territories of the Crimean Khanate. These raids ruined trade routes and severely depopulated many important regions. By the time Evliya Çelebi had arrived almost all the towns he visited were affected by the Cossack raids. In fact, the only place Evliya Çelebi considered safe from the Cossacks was the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] fortress at [[Arabat Fortress|Arabat]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-PFoAAAAMAAJ&q=Evliya+Celebi | title=Between Russians, Ottomans and Turks: Crimea and Crimean Tatars| last1=Fisher| first1=Alan| year=1998| publisher=Isis Press| isbn=9789754281262978-975-428-126-2}}</ref>
[[File:Ukraine-Dyke Pole.png|thumb|Map of the sparsely populated [[Wild Fields]] in the 17th century]]
The decline of the Crimean Khanate was a consequence of the weakening of the Ottoman Empire and a change in Eastern Europe's balance of power favouring its neighbours. Crimean Tatars often returned from Ottoman campaigns without loot, and Ottoman subsidies were less likely for unsuccessful campaigns. Without sufficient guns, the Tatar cavalry suffered a significant loss against European and Russian armies with modern equipment. By the late 17th century, [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]] became too strong for Crimean Khan to pillage and the [[Treaty of Karlowitz]] (1699) outlawed further raids. The era of great slave raids in Russia and Ukraine was over, although brigands and Nogay raiders continued their attacks, and consequently Russian hatred of the Crimean Khanate did not decrease. These politico-economic losses led in turn to erosion of the khan's support among noble clans, and internal conflicts for power ensued. The Nogays, who provided a significant portion of the Crimean military forces, also took back their support from the khans towards the end of the empire.
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More warfare ensued during the reign of [[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine II]]. The [[Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)]] resulted in the [[Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji]], which made the Crimean Khanate independent from the Ottoman Empire and aligned it with the [[Russian Empire]].
 
The rule of the last Crimean khan [[Şahin Giray]] was marked with increasing Russian influence and outbursts of violence from the khan administration towards internal opposition. On 8 April 1783, in violation of the treaty (after some parts of treaty had been already violated by Crimeans and Ottomans), Catherine II intervened in the civil war, de facto annexing the whole peninsula as the [[Taurida Oblast]]. In 1787, Şahin Giray took refuge in the Ottoman Empire and was eventually executed, on [[Rhodes]], by the Ottoman authorities for betrayal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/sahin-giray|title=ŞÂHİNŞâhin Giray GİRAY|last=Emecen|first=Feridun|publisher=[[İslâm Ansiklopedisi]]}}</ref> The royal [[Giray dynasty|Giray]] family survives to this day.
 
Through the 1792 [[Treaty of Jassy]] (Iaşi), the Russian frontier was extended to the [[Dniester River]] and the takeover of Yedisan was complete. The 1812 [[Treaty of Bucharest, 1812|Treaty of Bucharest]] transferred [[Bessarabia]] to [[Russian Empire|Russian]] control.
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==Economy==
[[File:Daniel Schultz d. J. 002.jpg|thumb|upright|Crimean Tatar children. Detail of a portrait of [[Agha (Ottoman Empire)|Agha Dedesh]] at the court of King [[John II Casimir of Poland|John II Casimir]], by [[Daniel Schultz]].]]The [[nomad]]ic part of the Crimean Tatars and all the Nogays were cattle breeders. Crimea had important trading ports where the goods arrived via the [[Silk Road]] were exported to the Ottoman Empire and Europe. Crimean Khanate had many large cities such as the capital Bahçeseray, [[Kezlev]] (Yevpatoria), [[Bilohirsk|Qarasu Bazar]] (Market on black water) and [[Simferopol|Aqmescit]] (White-mosque) having numerous ''hans'' ([[caravansarai]]s and merchant quarters), tanners, and mills. Many monuments constructed under the Crimean Khanate were destroyed or left in ruins after the Russian invasion.<ref name="ReferenceB">A history of Ukraine, Paul Robert Magocsi, 347, 1996</ref> Mosques, in particular were demolished or remade into Orthodox churches.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> The settled Crimean Tatars were engaged in trade, agriculture, and artisanry. Crimea was a center of wine, tobacco, and fruit cultivation. Bahçeseray [[kilim]]s ([[oriental rug]]s) were exported to [[Poland]], and knives made by Crimean Tatar artisans were deemed the best by the Caucasian tribes. Crimea was also renowned for manufacture of silk and honey.
 
The [[Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe|slave trade]] (15th–17th century) of captured Ukrainians and Russians was one of the major sources of income for Crimean Tartar and Nogai nobility. In this process, known as ''harvesting the steppe'', raiding parties would go out and capture, and then enslave the local Christian peasants living in the countryside.<ref>Williams</ref> In spite of the dangers, Polish and Russian [[serfs]] were attracted to the freedom offered by the empty steppes of [[Ukraine]]. The slave raids entered Russian and Cossack folklore and many ''[[Duma (epic)|dumy]]'' were written elegising the victims' fates. This contributed to a hatred for the Khanate that transcended political or military concerns. But in fact, there were always small raids committed by both Tatars and [[Cossacks]], in both directions.<ref name="ReferenceA">The Russian Annexation of the Crimea 1772–1783, p. 26</ref>
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