The Crimean Khanate was a Turkic Muslim state of the Crimean Tatars, which controlled the Crimean Peninsula and adjoining steppe lands. It emerged in the fifteenth century as the Golden Horde fell apart, under Haci I Giray, a descendant of Genghis Khan. From 1475 it was a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, with the khans required to take part in Ottoman campaigns, but it retained considerable independence. The Tatars were notorious for their raids on Ukraine, Poland and Russia, from which they took captives to sell as slaves, in one of the largest slave trades in Europe. Russia, under Catherine the Great, annexed the khanate in 1783, and many Crimean Tatars were gradually forced to leave.
Before and after
- 1439Printing press
- 9 May 1439Birth of Pius III
- 1440Construction of Eton College
- from April 1440 to October 1440Siege of Belgrade
- from 1441 to 1783Crimean Khanate
- from 1441 to 1475Ottoman conquest of the southern coast of Crimea
- 1442Construction of Basilica of Santa Croce
- 1442Rise of House of Braganza
- 1443Treaty of Gyehae
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The era
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