Siberian Khanate - Definition and Overview

In the 1440s, the Golden Horde was racked by civil war. It broke up into four separate Khanates: the Siberia Khanante, the Khanate of Kazan, the Khanate of Astrakhan and the Khanate of the Crimea.

Conquered by Russian cossacks under Yermak Timofeyevich in 1570's.

The rulers of the territory were usually selected from descendants of Shayban, Batu's brother. The last khan of Siberia was Kuchum.

Many modern Russian cities of West Siberia were founded at Siberia Khanate period (Tyumen, Tobolsk).

See also

• List of Turkic states and empires

External links

• Siberian Tatars (http://newasp.omskreg.ru/hist/fotatlas/rezumeen.htm)
• Sufism in Russia Today (http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/mdraper/transnatsufi/Research_Papers/Landa.htm)
• Ermak (http://www.sunbirds.com/lacquer/box/250149)
• Russian "Conquest" 1580-1760 (http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/Proceed97/Kotkin3.html)
• Siberia Mapping (http://www.nlr.ru:8101/eng/exib/siberia/sib01.htm)
• Notes on the Russian Army of the 17th Century(1632-98) (http://www.megalink.net/~dschorr/RusArm17.html)
• Ancient Humans (http://land.sfo.ru/eng/4_4_2.htm)
• The Mansi (http://haldjas.folklore.ee/~aado/rahvad/mansingl.htm)
• Moscovite (http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Muscovy.html)
• Sahanjar Soder (http://www.weeklyholiday.net/200902/heri.html)