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c. 856–1092/c. 1452–1681
The region of Ryazan, to the south-east of Moscow
1. The Khāns from the line of rulers of Kazan
|
c. 856/c.l452 |
Qāsirn b. Ulugh Muḥammad |
|
873–91/1469–86 |
Dāniyār b. Qāsirn |
2. The Khāns from the line of the rulers of the Crimea
|
891/1486 |
Nūr Dawlat Giray b. Ḥājjī I |
|
c. 905/c. 1500 |
Satïlghan b. Nūr Dawlat |
|
912/1506 |
Jānay b. Nür Dawlat |
3. The Khāns from the line of the rulers of Astrakhan
|
918/1512 |
Sayyid Awliyār b. Bakhtiyār Sulṭān b. Küchük Muhammad |
|
922/1516 |
Shāh ‘Alī b. Sayyid Awliyār, first reign |
|
925–38/1519–32 |
Jān ‘Alī b. Sayyid Awliyār |
|
944–58/1537–51 |
Shāh ‘Alī b. Sayyid Awliyār, second reign |
|
959/1552 |
Shāh ‘Alī, third reign |
|
974/1567 |
Sayïn Bulāt b. Bik Bulāt (Simeon Bekbulatovich), d. 1025/1616 |
|
981–1008/1573–1600 |
Muṣṭafa ‘Alī b. Aq Köbek |
4. Kazakh Khān
|
1008–19/1600–10 |
Uraz Muḥammad |
|
(1019–23/1610–14 |
the throne vacant in Qāsimov) |
5. The Khāns from the line of the rulers of Siberia
|
1023/1614 |
Arslan or Alp Arslan b. ‘Alī b. Kuchum |
|
1036/1627 |
Sayyid Burhān b. Arslan (Vassili) |
|
1090–2/1679–81 |
Fāṭima Sulṭān Bike, widow of Arslan |
|
1092/1681 |
Annexation to Russia |
The khanate of Qāsimov was another of the distant successors to the ulus of Jochi and Batu. It was founded by a member of the ruling family in Kazan, Qāsirn, who had fled to Moscow for protection. The Grand Prince Vassili I granted to him the town of Gorodets or Gorodok Meshchevskiy, later named after its ruler Qāsimov, on the Oka river to the south-east of Moscow. This became the centre of a principality which has been described as ‘a historical curiosity’ but which survived for over two centuries as a petty state, with ill-defined frontiers. The khāns bore in Russian the titles of Tsar and Tsarevitch, and were, in effect, feudal vassals of the Grand Princes and Emperors. Qāsimov was often a refuge for dissident Chingizids and was ruled at different times by members of the various Jochid lines. Latterly, some of the ruling family in Qāsimov became Christian and entered Russian service, and the khanate was eventually annexed to the Russian crown.
Lane-Poole, 234–5 and genealogical table at p. 240; Zambaur, 249 and Table S.
İA ‘Kasim hanhği’ (Reşid Rahmeti Arat); EI2‘Kasimov’ (A. Bennigsen).