The Crimean Khanate is a Turkic vassal state of the Ottoman Empire during 1478 to 1774, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeds the empire of the Golden Horde.

It is established by Hacı I Giray in 1449.

Its khans are the patrilineal descendants of Toqa Temür, thirteenth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan.

It is located in present-day Russia and Ukraine.Ottoman forces under Gedik Ahmet Pasha conquer all of the Crimean peninsula and joined it to the khanate in 1475.

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is an important center of the slave trade.

In 1774, it is released as a nationally independent state following the Russo-Turkish Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, and formally annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783, becoming the Taurida Governorate.