Astrakhan Khanate - Khans of Astrakhan, Volga Tatars, Xacitarxan, Darwish Ghali II of Astrakhan, Maxmud of Astrakhan, Yamghurchi of Astrakhan (Paperback)

Chapters: Khans of Astrakhan, Volga Tatars, Xacitarxan, Darwish Ghali Ii of Astrakhan, Maxmud of Astrakhan, Yamghurchi of Astrakhan, Qasim Ii of Astrakhan, Aq Kubek of Astrakhan, List of Astrakhan Khans, Ghabdelkarim, Shayex Xaydar, Ghabdraxman, Qasim I of Astrakhan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: all over former Soviet Union TurkeyChinaFinlandUSAGermany Volga Tatars are a group of Tatars, most of whom occupy the central portion of the Ural Mountains. The majority of Volga Tatars are Kazan (Qazan) Tatars. They are the majority of the population of Tatarstan, one of the constituent republics of Russia. During the 11th-16th centuries, numerous Turkic tribes lived in what is now Russia and Kazakhstan. The present territory of Tatarstan was inhabited by the Volga Bulgars, a people whose origins are uncertain, but who scholars consider to have been Turkic. The Bulgars settled on the Volga River in the 8th century and converted to Islam in 922 during the missionary work of Ahmad ibn Fadlan. On the Volga, the Bulgars mingled with Scythian and Finno-Ugric speaking peoples. After the Mongol invasion of Europe from 1241, Volga Bulgaria was defeated, ruined, and incorporated into the Golden Horde. Few of the population survived, nearly all of them moved to northern territories, but there was also some degree of mixing between it and the Kipchak Tatars of the Horde during the ensuing period. The group as a whole accepted the language of the Kipchaks and the ethnonym "Tatars" (although the name Bulgars persisted in some places), while the invaders eventually converted to Islam. Two centuries later, as the Horde disintegrated, the area became the territory of the Kazan khanate, which was ultimately conquered by Russia in 1552. There is some debate among sc...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=356082