Qasím Khan (

Volga Türki The Old Tatar language was a literary language used by some ethnic groups of the Idel-Ural region (Tatars and Bashkirs) from the Middle Ages until the early 20th century. Old Tatar is a member of the Kipchak (or Northwestern) group of Turkic l ...

and

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: قاسم خان; also known as ''Qasim of Kasimov''; died 1469) was the first

khan Khan may refer to: * Khan (surname), including a list of people with the name * Khan (title), a royal title for a ruler in Mongol and Turkic languages and used by various ethnicities Art and entertainment * Khan (band), an English progressiv ...

of the

Tatar Tatar may refer to: Peoples * Tatars, an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" * Volga Tatars, a people from the Volga-Ural region of western Russia * Crimean Tatars, a people from the Crimea peninsula by the B ...

Qasim Khanate The Qasim Khanate (also called ''Qasimov'', ''Kasimov'', or ''Kasim''), also known as the Tsardom of Kasimov (), was a Tatar-ruled khanate which existed from 1452 until 1681 on the territory of the Russian state. It was located within modern-da ...

, from 1452 until his death in 1469. He was the son of the

Kazan Kazan; , IPA: Help:IPA/Tatar, ɑzanis the largest city and capital city, capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka (river), Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of , with a population of over 1. ...

khan

Oluğ Möxämmäd Ulugh Muhammad or Muhammad Khan (1405–1445; Chagatai, Volga Türki, and Persian: الغ محمد; Kypchak: محمد خان; written as Ulanus by orientalists) was a medieval Tatar statesman, Gengisid, Khan of the Golden Horde (before 1436), ...

Life

He participated in the battles of

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in 1437, and of

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in 1445. After the battle of Suzdal, he and his brother Yaqub were sent to

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to control the results of the treaty. He stayed at the palace of

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to serve him; when his father died in 1445, the throne of

went to his elder brother Mäxmüd, which may have something to do with his decision to enter Russian service. In 1449, at the Pakhra River near Moscow, he defeated the troops of

Sayid Ahmad I Sayid Ahmad I (Turki/ Kypchak and Persian: سید احمد خان) was Khan of the Golden Horde from 1427 or 1433 until 1455. Unlike the last five of six khans, Ahmad was a younger son of Tokhtamysh. Breakup of the Horde While he died before the ...

, the khan of the

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, that came to conquer

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. In 1447–1453, he supported Vasily in his struggle against

Dmitry Shemyaka Dmitriy Yurievich Shemyaka () (died 1453) was the second son of Yury of Zvenigorod by Anastasia of Smolensk and grandson of Dmitri Donskoi. His hereditary patrimony was the rich northern town Galich-Mersky. When his uncle prince Vasily I of ...

. In 1452, Vasily II granted him a principality in

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, in the territory formerly belonging to

Mishar Yurt Mishar Yurt (, , ; in Russian language, Russian chronicles – '' / Meshcherskiy yurt''; literally ''The home of Mishar Tatar dialect, Mişärs'') was a semi-autonomous principality of the Golden Horde at the border of Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and ...

, as a hereditary estate, and

Kasimov Kasimov (; ;, Ханкирмән Latinized : Kasıym, Hankirmən,Ханкирмән, Хан-Кермень, means " Khan's fortress" historically Gorodets Meshchyorsky, Novy Nizovoy) is a town in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of ...

city. Those lands were designated the

. During the 1467–1469 war, the Russians attempted to make him the khan of Kazan. In 1469, he was succeeded by his son Daniyal.

References

*Henry Hoyle Howorth, History of the Mongols, 1880, Part 2, pp 429–230 Qasim Khanate 15th-century births 1469 deaths 15th-century monarchs in Europe Borjigin {{Asia-royal-stub