Crimean Khanate
Ottoman vassal realm
The Crimean Khanate was a Tatar state on the Crimean Peninsula that lasted from 1441 to 1783, when Russia annexed it.
A successor to the Mongol Golden Horde, the khanate was long a vassal of the Ottoman Empire and a major player in the slave trade, raiding Eastern European settlements for captives.
The Crimean Khanate supplied Constantinople with slaves for centuries.
Commerce in human beings
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
- bazaarsBusy outdoor trading areas
- caravanseraiTraveler's courtyard lodge
- captivesPeople held by force
ransom · human trafficking · commodities · furs · grain · salt · Constantinople · luxury goods
Attacks to capture people
- cavalryMounted military force
- mounted archersBowmen fighting from horseback
- raiding partiesGroups conducting sudden attacks
- captivesPeople held by force
fortifications · hit-and-run · siege · annexation · 1783 · Potemkin
Attacks to capture people
- beyTurkish term of respect
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
Land-holding sworn subordinate
- suzeraintyControl without full annexation
- tributeOffering of respect
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
- protectorateGuarded semi-autonomous territory
autonomy · Sultan · janissaries · capitulations · investiture · Sublime Porte · military alliance · buffer state
Landlocked sea near Caucasus
- DnieperMajor Eastern European waterway
- SevastopolCrimean port city
- YaltaCrimean diplomatic meeting site
- DniesterBlack Sea tributary
Unsettled, roving people
- hordeDisorganized, overwhelming crowd
- yurtsPortable circular tent homes
- pasturesLand for grazing animals
- grazingFeeding on pasture
Pontic steppe · migratory · herding · horses · cavalry · encampment · koumiss · animal husbandry
slave trade
Commerce in human beings
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
- bazaarsBusy outdoor trading areas
- caravanseraiTraveler's courtyard lodge
captives · ransom · human trafficking · commodities · furs · grain · salt · Constantinople · luxury goods · amber
slave raids
Attacks to capture people
- cavalryMounted military force
- mounted archersBowmen fighting from horseback
- raiding partiesGroups conducting sudden attacks
captives · fortifications · hit-and-run · siege · annexation · 1783 · Potemkin
slave raids
Attacks to capture people
- beyTurkish term of respect
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
vassal
Land-holding sworn subordinate
- suzeraintyControl without full annexation
- tributeOffering of respect
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
protectorate · autonomy · Sultan · janissaries · capitulations · investiture · Sublime Porte · military alliance · buffer state · appointment
Black Sea
Landlocked sea near Caucasus
- DnieperMajor Eastern European waterway
- SevastopolCrimean port city
- YaltaCrimean diplomatic meeting site
nomads
Unsettled, roving people
- hordeDisorganized, overwhelming crowd
- yurtsPortable circular tent homes
- pasturesLand for grazing animals
grazing · Pontic steppe · migratory · herding · horses · cavalry · encampment · koumiss · animal husbandry · wagons
- Eurasian HistoryOttoman Empire, Mongol Empire, Byzantine, Byzantium, Constantinople
- Steppe PeoplesMongols, Huns, Turks, Scythians, Tatars
- Ukraine HistoryCossacks, Holodomor, Chernobyl, Orange Revolution, Cossack Hetmanate
- CrimeaSevastopol, Yalta, Black Sea, Nikita, Russian annexation
- Muscovite RussiaIvan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Romanov dynasty, tsars, boyars
- Steppe EmpiresMongol Empire, Ilkhanate, Bulgars
Crimean KhanateRussian Empire
Romanov-ruled Eurasian state
Tsardom of Russia · Zaporizhian Sich · Cossack Hetmanate · Moldavia