Siberia Khanate
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Siberia Khanate is an anachronistic rendering of its actual name Khanate of Sibir, a Tatar khanate in the later Russian Siberia.
History
After the Mongol Invasion of Europe in the 1240's, Batu Khan's brother Shayban took control of the north eastern edge of the Ulus Jochi, controlling Mansi, Khanty and Nenets lands. He founded the Khanate of Sibir.
The Khanate was mainly populated by Siberian Tatars. The khans, rulers of the territory, were usually selected from descendants of Shayban and possibly Orda. The last khan of Siberia was Kuchum, whose descendants have been known as Princes Sibirsky. The last capital was at Qashliq, and many modern Russian cities in West Siberia were founded during the Siberia Khanate period, including Tyumen and Tobolsk.
During the 1450's, Muhammad Shaybani (A descendant of Shayban but not a Khan of Sibir) was forced southwards from Siberia and founded the Uzbek Khanate on the remains of the Timurid Empire. There were then two Khanates with controlled by descendants of Shayban.
The Siberian Khanate was easily overrun by Russian cossacks under Yermak Timofeyevich in the 1570s as they explored and subdued the sparsely populated, vast subcontinent. They named the new territory Siberia, after the Sibir. In a sense, the khanate lived on in the subsidiary title "Tsar of Siberia" which became part of the full imperial style of the Russian Autocrats.
See also
External links
- [Siberian Tatars]
- [Sufism in Russia Today]
- [Ermak]
- [Russian "Conquest" 1580-1760]
- [Siberia Mapping]
- [Notes on the Russian Army of the 17th Century(1632-98)]
- [Ancient Humans]
- [The Mansi]
- [Moscovite]
- [Sahanjar Soder]
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