Crimean Khanate

State · 1450–1782 CE · at its largest around 1450 CE

A Tatar khanate in Crimea and the neighbouring steppe ruled by the Giray dynasty, an Ottoman vassal from 1478, which was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783.

On its lands while it lasted

• Chufut-Kale (500–1490 CE): Capital of Crimean Khanate (1450–1490).
• Bakhchysarai (c. 1490 CE): Capital of Crimean Khanate (1490–1782).
• Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1657 CE): Cossack revolt led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in Ukraine. It created a Cossack Hetmanate that allied with Russia in 1654; many Jewish communities were massacred.

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