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Mongols
Mongols , Asian people, numbering about 6 million and distributed mainly in the Republic of Mongolia, the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China, and Kalmykia and the Buryat Republic of Russia. Traditionally the Mongols were a predominantly pastoral people, following their herds of horses, cattl... Read more
Khiva
Khiva , city (1989 pop. 40,001), S Uzbekistan, in the Khiva oasis and on the Amu Darya River. Industries include metalworking, cotton and silk spinning, wood carving, and carpetmaking. The city, in existence by the 6th cent., was the capital of the Khwarazm (Khorezm) kingdom in the 7th and 8th cen... Read more
Shemakha
Shemakha or Şamaxu , city (1989 pop. 24,681), E Azerbaijan, at the foot of the Caucasus. Its chief product is wine. Known since ancient times, Shemakha was an important silk center in the 16th cent., trading especially with Venice. It was the capital of the khanate of Shirwan until the 17th... Read more
Kazan
Kazan , city (1989 est. pop. 1,094,000), capital of Tatarstan , E European Russia, on the Volga. It is a major historic, cultural, industrial, and commercial center. Manufactures include chemicals, explosives, electrical equipment, building materials, consumer goods, and furs. Kazan's port and ship... Read more
Kokand
Kokand or Khokand , city (1991 pop. 182,000), E Uzbekistan, in the Fergana Valley. It is a center for the manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, machinery, and cotton and food products. Important since the 10th cent., Kokand became the capital of an Uzbek khanate which became independent of the ... Read more
Nagorno-Karabakh
Nagorno-Karabakh , region (1990 pop. 192,000), 1,699 sq mi (4,400 sq km), SE Azerbaijan, between the Caucasus and the Karabakh range. Xankändi (the capital, formerly Stepanakert) and Shusha are the chief towns. The region has numerous mineral springs as well as deposits of lithographic stone, m... Read more
Batu Khan
Batu Khan , d. 1255, Mongol leader; a grandson of Jenghiz Khan. In 1235 Batu became commander of the Mongol army assigned to the conquest of Europe; his chief general was Subutai. Batu crossed the Volga, sending part of his force to Bulgaria but most of it to Russia. By 1240 he had Moscow and Kiev i... Read more
Hulagu Khan
Hulagu Khan , 1217-65, Mongol conqueror, grandson of Jenghiz Khan. His brother Mangu, grand khan of the Mongols, directed him to quell a revolt in Persia. In 1256, in the course of his successful campaign, his forces virtually exterminated the powerful Assassin sect. Moving west to enlarge his con... Read more
Empire of the Golden Horde
Empire of the Golden Horde Mongol state comprising most of Russia, given as an appanage to Jenghiz Khan's oldest son, Juchi, and actually conquered and founded in the mid-13th cent. by Juchi's son, Batu Khan , after the Mongol or Tatar (see Tatars ) conquest of Russia. The name was derived from t... Read more
Tatars
Tatars or Tartars , Turkic-speaking peoples living primarily in Russia. They number about 5.5 million and are largely Sunni Muslims. The name is derived from Tata or Dada, a Mongolian tribe that inhabited present NE Mongolia in the 5th cent. First used to describe the peoples that overran parts ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Khanate"

Astrakhan, Khanate of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ASTRAKHAN, KHANATE OF The Khanate of Astrakhan was a tribal union of Sunni Muslim pastoral nomadic...into the Caspian Sea. Traditionally, it is believed that the khanate of Astrakhan was formed sometime in the mid-1400s (certainly...
Crimean Khanate
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History CRIMEAN KHANATE One of the surviving political elements of the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate comprised all of the Crimean peninsula, except...it was annexed by the Russian Empire. The Khanate's ruling dynasty, the Girays, established...
khanate of Khiva
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition khanate of Khiva former state of central Asia, based on the Khiva (Khwarazm or Khorezm) oasis along the Amu Darya River. The khanate lay S of the Aral Sea and included large areas of the Kyzyl Kum and Kara Kum deserts. Founded c.1511 as part...
Golden Horde
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...appropriately called the Ulus of Jochi or Khanate of Qipchaq (although Arabic sources at...many decades after the end of the Qipchaq Khanate. In a travel account of 1624 concerning...to mean the capital city of the Qipchaq Khanate. Of the two capitals of that khanate...
Khiva
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...northwestern Uzbekistan and the name of a khanate in existence prior to and during the rule...One Turkic leader (khan) founded the Khanate of Khiva shortly afterward. The strongest...weak. The Russian Empire conquered the khanate in the 1870s. In the eighteenth century...
Kazan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...who had been ousted from the Qipchaq Khanate in 1437, defeated the last ruler of the principality of Kazan to establish a khanate by 1445. It was an important trading...first half of the sixteenth century, the khanate of Kazan was involved in a three-cornered...
Black Sea Steppe
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...long fiercely contested by the Crimean Khanate, the Ottoman Empire, Poland-Lithuania...and 1476 – 1514) the Crimean Khanate, an offshoot of the disintegrating Great...over most of the Black Sea steppe. The khanate's power was reinforced by Ottoman protection...
Nogai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...the Golden Horde. Sunni Muslim, Nogai khanate was formed in 1391, when the Tatar general...capital Saraichik, the only town in the khanate, was situated on the lower Ural in Central...Horde, occupying the original core of the khanate's lands, apparently became Muscovite...
Mongols
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...divided into four khanates. They were the Great Khanate, which comprised all of China and most of E...known as the Yüan dynasty; the Jagatai khanate in Turkistan ; the Kipchack khanate, or the Empire of the Golden Horde , founded...
Talysh
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Middle Ages. The Talysh established a khanate in the seventeenth century, following...of Nadir Shah. The founder of the khanate's dynasty was Seid Abbas, by birth a Talysh noble. In 1785 the Talysh Khanate became a dependency of Fatali, the...

Dictionary entries related to "Khanate"

khanate
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History khanate The region ruled by a khan (a Mongol or Turkic supreme...century the MONGOL empire consisted of four khanates; the khanate of the Western Kipchaks (the GOLDEN HORDE ); the khanate of Persia, whose ruler was called the Il-khan; the...
Pan-Turkism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Turkic groups in his journal Mukhbir (1878). In an essay on Khiva he criticized the Ottoman policy toward this Central Asian khanate and described its people as "Muslim Turks who belong to our religion, nation, and ethnic family." In 1876 S ü...
Tajikistan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...the 7th and 8th centuries AD. Large numbers of Turkic people moved into the area, which came under the control of the Uzbek khanate of Bukhara from the 15th to the mid-18th century and was then conquered by the Afghans. By 1868 the whole area had been...
Kazakhstan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...herdsmen, ruled by Mongol khans, whose territories were steadily annexed by Tsarist Russia during the 19th century, the KHANATE being abolished in 1848. A nationalist movement developed in the early 20th century and there was a bloody anti-Tsarist...
Tartars
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Later any people of Turkish stock in Russia were called Tartars. In the 15th century the Crimean Tartars formed an independent khanate, which was a tributary to the OTTOMAN Turks until annexed by Russia in 1783. The khanates of the Volga Tartars came under...
Golden Horde
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Golden Horde The TARTARS of the Mongol KHANATE of the Western Kipchaks (1242–1480). The word “horde” derives from the Mongol “...

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The Empire and the Khanate; a political history of Qing relations with Khoqand c. 1760-1860.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2005; 511 words ; 9004145508 The Empire and the Khanate; a political history of Qing relations with Khoqand c. 1760...research into the policy of the Qing dynasty toward the Central Asian khanate of Khoqand, he became increasingly aware of how radically Chinese...
Leader of Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan claims 'incumbent authorities building Kokand Khanate'.
News Wire article from: AKIpress News Agency; 6/12/2008; 498 words ; ...who said that the incumbent authorities are building Kokand Khanate instead of building a democratic society in his interview for...in Kyrgyzstan more resemble those used 200 years ago in the Khanate of Kokand, where wildness, barbarism, feudal governance...
The Chaghadaids and Islam: the conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-34).
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Islam among the Mongols of the Chaghadaid Khanate, (1) some of these same sources simultaneously...rule successively over the Chaghadaid Khanate during the nearly three decades after...Tarmashirin remained in the western half of the khanate, and his base was probably at Tirmidh...
Azerbaijan and the Caspian Basin: Pipelines and Geopolitics.
Magazine article from: Demokratizatsiya; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...were mainly khanates, the small feudal kingdoms warring amongst themselves, such as the Baku Khanate, the Karabakh Khanate, and the Yerevan Khanate. All of them were to a certain extent controlled by the Iranian king or shah. After 1828...
Mission delayed: the Russian Orthodox Church after the conquest of Kazan' (1).
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...expansion began with the conquest of the Khanate of Kazan' in 1552. By the seventeenth...Church in the territory of the former Khanate of Kazan' by considering the role of...and the lands and people of the former Khanate. In both cases, the combined forces...
Full text of white paper on history, development of Xinjiang (4)
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 5/26/2003; 576 words ; ...ceaselessly in their scramble for the khanate. In the middle of the eighth century...River. In 744, the Uighur founded a khanate in Mobei, and later dispatched troops...Lushan-Shi Siming Rebellion. The Uighur Khanate collapsed in 840 because of natural disasters...
Xinjiang, multi-ethnic region since ancient times: white paper (2)
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 5/26/2003; 544 words ; ...which fought ceaselessly in their scramble for the khanate. In the middle of the eighth century, both the...ancient tribe Teli. In 744, the Uighur founded a khanate in Mobei. The Uighur Khanate collapsed in 840 and consequently most of the...
Cai Jiayi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]. Qingdai Xinjiang shehui jingji shigang [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] (An outline history of Xinjiang's society and economy).(Book review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 12/30/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...subsequent establishment of the Zungar Khanate in northern Xinjiang in the seventeenth...of an increasingly aggressive Khokand Khanate to the west, the expansionistic tendencies...rule that had characterized the Zungar Khanate and the reign of Yakub Beg as well as...
Earth to Kalmykia, come in please. (Soviet Republic)(Lost Horizons in Russia)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/20/1997; 700+ words ; ...declare them Russians, and gave them a "khanate", or kingdom, stretching from Stavropol...east. The republic of Kalmykia is the khanate's much-diminished successor. For...lost their status as a self-governing khanate, and later were resettled from tents...
'Power Vertical' Takes a Bashkir Battering, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia); 5/19/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...relation to the Russian Federation as did the khanate of Kokand to imperial Russia, which annexed the khanate in 1876. Officially it is one of Russia...when agents fly into Moscow from a medieval khanate and make off with a lawyer who failed to...