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Khanate or Chanat is a Turkic-originated word used to describe a political entity ruled by a Khan. In modern Turkish the word used is hanlik, and in Azeri, xanliq. This political entity is typical for people from the Eurasian Steppe
Eurasian Steppe

The Eurasian Steppe is the term often used to describe the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia stretching from the western borders of the steppes of Hungary#Geography to the eastern border of the steppes of Mongolia#Geography and climate, for roughly 5000 km....
 and it can be equivalent to tribal
Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
 chiefdom
Chiefdom

A chiefdom is a type of complex society of varying degrees of centralization that is led by an individual known as a Tribal chief.In anthropology, one model of human social development rooted in ideas of cultural evolution describes a chiefdom as a form of social organization more complex than a tribe or a band society, and less complex tha...
, principality
Principality

A principality is a monarchy feudatory or sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a monarch with the title of prince or princess, or a monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince....
, kingdom
Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged in an individual, who is the head of state, often for Life tenure or until abdication, and "is wholly set apart from all other members of the state." The person who heads a monarchy is called a monarch....
 and even empire
Empire

Empire derives from the Latin word imperium, denoting ?military command? in Roman. Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples united and ruled either by a monarch or an oligarchy....
.

Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan , born , was the founder, Khan and Khagan of the Mongol Empire, the World's largest empires contiguous empire in history....
 died he divided his empire into four sections for each of his sons and grandsons.






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Khanate or Chanat is a Turkic-originated word used to describe a political entity ruled by a Khan. In modern Turkish the word used is hanlik, and in Azeri, xanliq. This political entity is typical for people from the Eurasian Steppe
Eurasian Steppe

The Eurasian Steppe is the term often used to describe the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia stretching from the western borders of the steppes of Hungary#Geography to the eastern border of the steppes of Mongolia#Geography and climate, for roughly 5000 km....
 and it can be equivalent to tribal
Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
 chiefdom
Chiefdom

A chiefdom is a type of complex society of varying degrees of centralization that is led by an individual known as a Tribal chief.In anthropology, one model of human social development rooted in ideas of cultural evolution describes a chiefdom as a form of social organization more complex than a tribe or a band society, and less complex tha...
, principality
Principality

A principality is a monarchy feudatory or sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a monarch with the title of prince or princess, or a monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince....
, kingdom
Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged in an individual, who is the head of state, often for Life tenure or until abdication, and "is wholly set apart from all other members of the state." The person who heads a monarchy is called a monarch....
 and even empire
Empire

Empire derives from the Latin word imperium, denoting ?military command? in Roman. Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples united and ruled either by a monarch or an oligarchy....
.

Khanates before the Mongol empire

  • Göktürk Khaganate
  • Western Turkic Khaganate
    Western Turkic Khaganate

    The Western Turkic Khaganate was formed as a result of the internecine wars in the beginning of the 7th century after the G?kt?rk Khaganate had splintered into two polities ? Eastern and Western....
  • Avar Khaganate
  • Khazar Khaganate
  • Rus' Khaganate
    Rus' Khaganate

    The Rus' Khaganate was a polity that flourished during a poorly documented period in the history of Eastern Europe . A predecessor to the Rurik Dynasty and the Kievan Rus', the Rus' Khaganate was a state set up by a people called Rhos or Rus , at least some of whom were Varangians , in what is today northern Russia....

Mongol Khanates

When Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan , born , was the founder, Khan and Khagan of the Mongol Empire, the World's largest empires contiguous empire in history....
 died he divided his empire into four sections for each of his sons and grandsons. After the death of Mongke Khan in 1259, the succession war between Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan

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 and Ariq Boke
Ariq Boke

Ariq B?ke, or Arigh Bukha, or a combination of both , the youngest son of Tolui, was a grandson of Genghis Khan and a claimant to the Mongol Empire....
 essentially marked the end of a unified empire and the emergence of four separate Khanates, which were:
  • Chagatai Khanate
    Chagatai Khanate

    The Chagatai Khanate was a Mongol, and later linguistically Turkic languages, khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan , second son of the Great Khan Genghis Khan, and his descendents and successors....
  • Golden Horde
    Golden Horde

    The Golden Horde is a East-Slavic designation for the Mongol?later Turkic languages?Muslim khanate established in the western part of the Mongol Empire after the Mongol invasion of Rus' in the 1240s: present-day Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, and the Caucasus....
  • Ilkhanate
    Ilkhanate

    The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate or Il Khanate , was a Mongol khanate established in Persia in the 13th century, considered a part of the Mongol Empire....
  • Yuan Dynasty
    Yuan Dynasty

    The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was both the continuation of the Mongol Empire and the Mongol founded historical state in Mongolia and China, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368....


Post Mongol khanates

  • Khanate of Kazan
    Khanate of Kazan

    The Kazan Khanate was a medieval Tatar state which occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its capital was the city of Kazan....
     (Mongol term khan became active since Genghizide dynasty was settled in Kazan Duchy in 1430s; imperial Russian added to its titles the former Kazan khanate with the royal style tsar
    Tsar

    Tsar or czar , occasionally spelled csar or tzar in English language, is a slavs term designating certain monarchs.Originally, the title Czar meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who has the same rank as a Ancient Rome or Byzantine emperor due to recognition by another emperor or...
    .
  • Sibirean Khanate (giving its name to Siberia as the first significant conquest during Russia's great eastern expansion across the Ural range)
  • Astrakhan Khanate
    Astrakhan Khanate

    The Khanate of Astrakhan was a Tatar feudal state that appeared after the collapse of the Golden Horde. The Khanate existed in the 15th and 16th centuries in the area adjacent to the mouth of the Volga river, where the contemporary city of Astrakhan/Hajji Tarkhan is now located....
  • Crimean Khanate
    Crimean Khanate

    The Crimean Khanate or the Khanate of Crimea was a Crimean Tatars state from 1441 to 1783. Its native name was Crimean Yurt . The khanate was by far the longest-lived of the Turkic peoples khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde....
    .


Examples of other, humbler Tatar khanate dynasties made vassals of Muscovy/ Russia are:
  • the Qasim Khanate
    Qasim Khanate

    Qasim Khanate or Kingdom of Qasim was a Tatar territorial formation , vassal of Russia, which existed from 1452 till 1681 in the territory of modern Ryazan Oblast in Russia with its capital Kasimov, in the middle stream of the Oka River....
     (hence modern Kasimov), named after its founder, a vassal of Moscovia/Russia
  • the nomadic state founded in 1801 as the Inner Horde (also called Buqei Horde, under Russian suzerainty) between Volga and Yaik (Ural) rivers by 5,000 families of Kazakhs from Younger Kazakh Zhuz
    Jüz

    A j?z is one of the three main territorial divisions in the Desht-i Kypchak that covers much of the contemporary Kazakhstan. Variably, a j?z is believed to be a confederation or alliance of Kazakh nomads....
     tribe under a Sultan
    Sultan

    Sultan is an Islamic honorifics, with several historical meanings. Originally it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", or "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ???? sulah, meaning "authority" or "power"....
     was restyled by the same in 1812 as Khanate of the Inner Horde; in 1845 the post of Khan was abolished);
  • the Kalmyk khanate (established c.1632 by the Torghut branch of the Mongolian Oirats, settled along the lower Volga River (in modern Russia and Kazakhstan)
  • Nogai Khanate
  • the khanate of Tuva
    Tuva

    Tyva Republic , or Tuva , is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia ....
     near Outer Mongolia.
  • Khanate of Baku in current Azerbaijan.
  • Besh Tau El
Further east, in imperial China's western Turkestan
Turkestan

Turkestan is a region in Central Asia, which today is largely inhabited by Turkic peoples. It has been referenced in many Turkic and Persian sagas and is an integral part of Turan ....
 flank:
  • Dörben Oyriad ('Four Confederates') or Dzungar (Kalmyk or Kalmuck people branch) Khanate formed in 1626, covering Xinjiang
    Xinjiang

    Xinjiang is an autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area, spanning over 1.6 million sq....
     region of China, Kyrgyzstan, eastern Kazakhstan and western Mongolia; 2 December 1717 - 1720 also styled Protector of Tibet; 1755 tributary to China, 1756 annexed and dissolved in 1757
  • Khanate of Kashgaria founded in 1514 as part of Djagataide Khanate;
17th century divided into several minor khanates without importance, real power going to the so-called Khwaja, Arabic islamic religious leaders; title changed to Amir Khan in 1873, annexed by China in 1877.

See also

  • Khanates of the Caucasus
    Khanates of the Caucasus

    During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Caucasus, especially the South Caucasus, was divided into small khanates, either belonging to or dependent on Persian Empire, independent, or belonging to or dependent on Russian Empire....
  • Mongol Empire
    Mongol Empire

    The Mongol Empire was the List of largest empires#Contiguous Empires empire and the largest bar none. It emerged from the unification of Mongols and Turkic peoples tribes in modern day Mongolia, and grew through Mongol invasions, after Genghis Khan had been proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206....
  • List of Mongol Khans
    List of Mongol Khans

    This is the list of Mongol Khan and Khagans....