Ancient history

Khanate of Crimea | historical state, Ukraine

Khanate of Crimea , one of the successor states of the Mongol Empire . Founded in 1443 and in Bakhchysaray centered Khanate in Crimea occasionally conducted raids against rising Moscow, but was no longer the threat to Russia's independence that its mother state, the Golden Horde , even after the Turkish vassals had in 1475. Moscow tributes to the Moscow Khanates became increasingly perfunctory and Grand Duke Ivan III. Officially declared Moscow independent in 1480. His grandson, Ivan IV. The Terrible conquered the other two great Tatar Khanates, Kazan and Astrakhan, however, turned to the Baltic before joining the Crimea attack . prince Vasily Golitsyn made two failed attempts to subdue this last fragment of the Horde (1687–89), but the Crimean Khanate survived Russia to Catherine II The Great annexed it in 1783.