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Encyclopedia > Nogay Horde

The Nogai Horde was the horde that controlled the Caucasus Mountain region after the Mongol invasion. The Nogai Horde developed as a synthesis of Turkic Kipchaks and the Mongols who conquered them. Their descendants are also known today as the Caucasian Mongols. Look up Horde in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Horde is a term derived from a Turkic word - ordu. ... The Caucasus , a region bordering Asia Minor, is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus mountains and surrounding lowlands. ... Honorary guard of Mongolia. ... This is the disambiguation page for the terms Turk, Turkey, Turkic, and Turkish. ... 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. ...


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 River. Nogai Khan aka Kara Nogay (died 1299) was a Khan of the Golden Horde and a great-grandson of Genghis Khan. ... 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 sea between Asia and Europe (European Russia). ... The Aral Sea, in 2003, had shrunk to well under half of the area it had covered fifty years before. ...


The main element of its people was composed of Kipchak groups, as in the Crimean, Astrakhan and Siberia Khanates. Among these tribes, the Mangit people - supposedly a Mongol tribe that had become Turks - had a privileged status. 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 classes. 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 Nogais was supplanted to Daghestan. In the 17th century Kalmyks was setteled in Nogay Horde lands and ths area is 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 (Russian: Респу́блика Калмы́кия; Kalmyk: Хальм Тангч) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ...

See also: Nogai people.

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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Nogai Khan (458 words)
Nogai Khan (died 1299), also called Kara Nogai (Black Nogai), was a Khan of the Golden Horde and a great-grandson of Genghis Khan.
Nogai first appears as a battle commander in the late 1250s, leading the second Mongol raid against Poland and plundering Kraków and other cities.
Nogai was killed in battle in 1299 at the Kagamlik, near the Dnieper against fellow Mongols.
Mongol invasion of Rus (2421 words)
Here the commander of the Golden Horde, as the western section of the Mongol empire was called, fixed his golden headquarters and represented the majesty of his sovereign the grand khan who lived with the Great Horde in the Orkhon Valley of the Amur.
Nogai Khan, half a century later, married a daughter of the Byzantine emperor, and gave his own daughter in marriage to a Russian prince, Theodor the Black.
The Golden Horde was succeeded by the Kazan, Astrakhan, Crimean, and Siberian khanates, as well as the Nogai Horde, which wreaked havoc in Muscovy in the course of the 15th and 16th centuries.
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