Crimean Khanate
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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
Uzbek Khan Mosque in Eski Qırım (Solhat), built in the Golden Horde period
Dürbe of Canike Hanım
İslâm II Giray Khan ("اسلام گيرای خان") enthroned (ruled 1584-88). Secaatname (1586)
Tatars fighting Zaporozhian Cossacks, by Józef Brandt
Between 1441 and 1774, the Crimean Khanate and the Nogai Horde conducted slave raids throughout lands primarily controlled by Russia and Poland–Lithuania. Concentrated in Eastern Europe, but also stre
Depiction of the Great Abatis Border by Max Presnyakov (2010). This chain of fortification lines was constructed to protect Russia's subjects from the Crimeans and the Nogais, who, rapidly moving along the Muravsky Trail, ravaged the nation's southern provinces.