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Astrakhan Khanate

Years: 1466 - 1556

The Khanate of Astrakhan (Xacitarxan Khanate) is a Tatar Turkic state that appears after the collapse of the Golden Horde.

The Khanate exists in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the area adjacent to the mouth of the Volga river, where the contemporary city of Astrakhan/Hajji Tarkhan is now located.

Its khans are the patrilineal descendants of Toqa Temür, the thirteenth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan.The Khanate is established in the 1460s by Mäxmüd of Astrakhan.

The capital is the city of Xacítarxan, also known as Astrakhan in Russian chronicles.

Its territory includes 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 what is now Kalmykia.

The Northwestern Caspian seaside is a southern boundary and the Crimean Khanate bounda Astrakhan on the west.