Saadet II Giray
[ Crimean Tatar, ]Ottoman Turkish
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and (reigned 1584) was nominally a khan of the
Crimean Khanate
The Crimean Khanate, self-defined as the Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak, and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary, was a Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441 to 1783, the longest-lived of th ...
. More accurately, he rebelled against his uncle and called himself khan, but was soon driven out.
He was the son of Mehmed II Giray. When the Turks replaced Mehmed with İslâm II, Mehmed fled but was caught and killed. His sons reached safety on the steppes. Less than three months later Saadet returned with an army. Saadet took the capital and had the nobles name him khan. Islyam appealed to the Turks who sent troops and drove Saadet out of Crimea. He died at Astrakhan around 1588, possibly murdered by the Russians.
For a fuller account see his father
Mehmed II Giray and his adversary
İslâm II Giray.
His sons
*Kumyk: Probably poisoned by Russians in Astrakhan along with his uncle Murad
*Devlet: Nureddin under Gazi II; in 1601 planned to rebel but was killed.
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Shahin Giray: Escaped after Devlet was killed, active until 1641.
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Mehmed III Giray: Escaped after Devlet was killed, killed Tokhtamysh, later khan.
Notes
References
*Oleksa Gaivoronsky «Повелители двух материков», Kiev-Bakhchisarai, second edition, 2010, , volume 1, pages 320–322 (revolt), page 329 (death)
*Henry Hoyle Howorth, History of the Mongols, 1880, Part 2, pp. 519–520 (short account)
{{Khans of Crimea
16th-century Crimean khans