The Nogai Horde was the Tatar horde that controlled the Caucasus Mountain region after the Mongol invasion. The Nogai Horde developed as a synthesis of Turkic Kipchaks with the Mongols who conquered them. Their descendants today are known as the Nogais. Look up Horde on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Horde is a term derived from a Turkic word - ordu. ... Kipchaks (also Kypchaks, Qipchaqs) are an ancient Turkic people, first mentioned in the historical chronicles of Central Asia in the 1st millennium BC. Their language was also known as Kipchak. ... Nogais are the Turkic people in Daghestan who speak the Nogai language. ...

Their khanate, named after Nogai Khan (d. 1299) and established by Edigu (d. 1419), included the regions extending from the Volga to Irtish Rivers, and from the Caspian Sea towards the Aral Sea. Its capital was the city of Saraycik, located in the mouth of the Yayik (Ural) River which was the eastern border of their territory, separating them from the Kirghiz-Kazakhs. Edigu, or Edigey (1352-1419) was an emir of the White Horde who founded the new political entity, which came to be known as the Nogai Horde. ... For other meanings of the word Volga see Volga (disambiguation) Волга Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge  ? m³/s Area watershed 1. ... Caspian Sea viewed from orbit The Caspian Sea or Mazandaran Sea is a landlocked endorheic sea between Asia and Europe (European Russia). ... Map of area around the Aral Sea. ...

The main element of the Khanate's people was composed of Kipchak groups, just as in the Crimean, Astrakhan and Siberian Khanates. Among these tribes, the Mangit people -- supposedly a Mongol tribe that had become Turks -- had a privileged status. The Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukrainian transliteration: Avtonomna Respublika Krym, Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим, Russian: Автономная Республика Крым, pronounced cry-MEE-ah in English) is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ... Astrakhan coat of arms features the Khans crown and a sabre Astrakhan (А́страхань; Tatar: Ästerxan), a major city in southern European Russia and the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. ... In the 1440s, the Golden Horde was racked by civil war. ...

Pursuant to the submission of the Kazan and Astrakhan Khanates to Russia (1552-1557), the Nogay Khanate was divided into several entities. Those in the north of the Caucasus were called "Küçük Orda" (Small Horde), and those within the environs of Emba Lake were called "Altiul Ordası". Those who remained under the domination of Ismail Khan were united under the collective name of the "Great Nogay Horde", and recognised the domination of Ivan IV (1555-1557). Categories: Historical stubs | Former countries | Tatars | Tatarstan history | History of Mongolia ... The Astrakhan Khanate was a predominantly Turkic state which existed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the area adjacent to the mouth of the Volga, where the contemporary city of Astrakhan is now located. ...

Later, the Nogais were supplanted to Daghestan. In the 17th century, Kalmyks were settled in former Nogay Horde lands, and this area is still known as Kalmykia. The Republic of Dagestan (Russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... The Republic of Kalmykia (Russian: Респу́блика Калмы́кия; Kalmyk: Хальм Тангч) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... The Republic of Kalmykia (Kalmyk: Хальмг Таңһч; Russian: ) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ...