Astrakhan Khanate

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Khanate of Astrakhan
1466–1556
Astrakhan Khanate in 1466–1556
Capital	Astrakhan (Xacitarxan)
Official languages	Chagatai language, Kypchak
Common languages	Kipchak languages
Religion	Sunni Islam
Government	Khanate
Astrakhan Khan
• 1466	Makhmud Astrakhan
• 1554–1556	Darwish Ghali
History
• Established	1466
• Russian conquest	1556
Preceded by Succeeded by Golden Horde Nogai Horde Tsardom of Russia Kalmyk Khanate Nogai Horde
Today part of	Russia

The Khanate of Astrakhan was a Tatar rump state of the Golden Horde. The khanate existed in the 15th and 16th centuries in the area adjacent to the mouth of the Volga river, around the modern city of Astrakhan. Its khans claimed patrilineal descent from Toqa Temür,^[1] the thirteenth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan.

Mahmud bin Küchük established the Khanate in the 1460s. The capital was the city of Xacitarxan, also known as Astrakhan in Russian chronicles. Its territory included the Lower Volga valley and the Volga Delta, including most of what is now Astrakhan Oblast and the steppeland on the right bank of Volga in present-day Kalmykia. To the south was the Caspian Sea, to the east the Nogai Horde, and to the west Nogais who were theoretically subjects of the Crimean Khanate.