Polity · 1450 CE – 1782 CE
Crimean Khanate
Kîrîm Kanlîgî · Qırım Hanlığı
- Peak recorded area
- 222,741 km²
- 1450 CE
- Rulers on record
- 1
- from 1777 CE
Overview
The Crimean Khanate, self-defined as the Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak, and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary, was a Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441 to 1783. Established by Hacı I Giray in 1441.
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Territory
24 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
Rulers
1 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Şahin GirayKhan of Crimea1777 CE – 1782 CE
Language & currency
- Official & national languages
- Crimean Tatar, Ottoman Turkish, Turki
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
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Crimean Khanate is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.