Khanate

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Khanate or Chanat is a Turkish origined word used to describe a political entity ruled by a Khan. In Modern Turkish the word used is hanlık. This political entity is typical for people from the Euroasian Steppe and it can be equivalent to tribal chiefdom, principality, kingdom and even empire.

Khanate before the Mongol empire

Main article: Khaganate

Mongol Khanates

When Genghis Khan died he divided his empire into four sections for each of his sons and grandsons. These khanates increasingly diverged from each other as time went on. Those four Khanates were:

Post Mongol khanates

Khanate of Kazan (Mongol term khan became active since Genghizide dynasty was settled in Kazan Duchy in 1430s; imperial Russian added to its titles the former Kazan khanate with the royal style tsar.
Sibirean Khanate (giving its name to Siberia as the first significant conquest during Russia's great eastern expansion across the Ural range)
Astrakhan Khanate
Crimean Khanate.

Examples of other, humbler Tatar khanate dynasties made vassals of Muscovy/ Russia are:

the Qasim Khanate (hence modern Kasimov), named after its founder, a vassal of Moscovia/Russia
the nomadic state founded in 1801 as the Inner Horde (also called Buqei Horde, under Russian suzerainty) between Volga and Yaik (Ural) rivers by 5,000 families of Kazakhs from Younger Kazakh Zhuz tribe under a Sultan was restyled by the same in 1812 as Khanate of the Inner Horde; in 1845 the post of Khan was abolished);
the Kalmyk khanate (established c.1632 by the Torghut branch of the Mongolian Oirats, settled along the lower Volga River (in modern Russia and Kazakhstan)
Nogai Khanate
the khanate of Tuva near Outer Mongolia.
Khanate of Baku in current Azerbaijan.
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Further east, in imperial China's western Turkestan flank:

Dörben Oyriad ('Four Confederates') or Dzungar (Kalmyk or Kalmuck people branch) Khanate formed in 1626, covering Xinjiang region of China, Kyrgyzstan, eastern Kazakhstan and western Mongolia; 2 December 1717 - 1720 also styled Protector of Tibet; 1755 tributary to China, 1756 annexed and dissolved in 1757
Khanate of Kashgaria founded in 1514 as part of Djagataide Khanate;

17th century divided into several minor khanates without importance, real power going to the so-called Khwaja, Arabic islamic religious leaders; title changed to Amir Khan in 1873, annexed by China in 1877.

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A chiefdom is any community led by an individual known as a chief.

In anthropological theory, one model of human social development rooted in ideas of cultural evolution describes a chiefdom as a form of social organization more complex than a tribe, and less complex than a
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principality (or princedom) is a monarchical feudatory or sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a monarch with the title of prince or princess, or (in the widest sense) a monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince.
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empire (from the Latin "imperium", denoting military command within the ancient Roman government). Generally, they may define an empire as a state that extends dominion over populations distinct culturally and ethnically from the culture/ethnicity at the center of power.
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Khagan or Great Khan (Old Turkic kaɣan; Mongolian: хаган; Chinese: 可汗
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The Göktürks or Kök-Türks were a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia. Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 Tūjué), the Göktürks under the leadership of Bumin Khan (d.
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The Western Turkic Khaganate was formed as a result of the internecine wars in the beginning of the 7th century (600 – 603 AD) after the Göktürk Khaganate (founded in the 6th century in Northern Mongolia by the Ashina clan) had splintered into two polities – Eastern and
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Eurasian Avars were a nomadic people of Eurasia, who appeared in central and eastern Europe in the 6th century. They are known to history as Avars, though the Romans called them "pseudo-Avars." Avar rule persisted over much of the Pannonian plain up to the early 9th century.
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Ancient times:

Cucuteni-Trypillian culture
Yamna culture
Catacomb culture
Cimmeria
Taurica
Scythia
Sarmatia
Zarubintsy culture
Cherniakhov culture
Hunnic Empire

Medieval era:

Early East Slavs

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The Rus' Khaganate was a polity that flourished during a poorly documented period in the history of Eastern Europe (roughly the late 8th and early to mid-9th centuries CE).
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BCE Zayandeh River Civilization Sialk civilization 7500–1000 Jiroft civilization (Aratta) Proto-Elamite civilization Bactria-Margiana Complex Elamite dynasties 2800–550 Kingdom of Mannai Median Empire 728–550 Achaemenid Empire Seleucid Empire Greco-Bactrian
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The Chagatai Khanate was a khanate of the Mongol Empire that comprised the lands controlled by Chagatai Khan (alternative spellings Chagata, Chugta, Chagta, Djagatai, Jagatai), second son of the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan.
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The Yuan Dynasty (Chinese: 元朝; pinyin: Yuáncháo; Classical Mongolian: Yuan Guren) was a khanate of the Mongol Empire, one of the four major divisions of the empire, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368, followed the
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Golden Horde (Mongolian: Алтан Ордын улс Altan Ordyn Uls; Turkish: Altın Orda; Tatar:
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Kazan Khanate (Tatar: Qazan xanlığı/Казан ханлыгы; Russian: Казанское ханство, tr:
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Tsar (Bulgarian, Serbian: цар, Russian (help) , in scientific transliteration respectively car and car' ), occasionally spelled Czar or Tzar
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Siberia Khanate is an anachronistic rendering of its actual name Khanate of Sibir, a Turkic khanate in the later Russian Siberia. The Khanate had an ethnically diverse population of Siberian Tatars, Khanty, Mansi, Nenets and Selkup people.
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The Khanate of Astrakhan (Xacitarxan Khanate) was a Tatar feudal state that appeared after the collapse of the Golden Horde. The Khanate existed in the 15th and 16th centuries in the area adjacent to the mouth of the Volga river, where the contemporary city of
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The Crimean Khanate or the Khanate of Crimea (Crimean Tatar: Qırım Hanlığı,
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Qasim Khanate or Kingdom of Qasim (Tatar: Qasím xanlığı/Касыйм ханлыгы,
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Grand Duchy of Moscow (Russian: Великое княжество Московское
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Origin Russia
Mouth Caspian Sea
Basin countries Russia, Kazakhstan
Length 2,428 km (1,509 mi)
Source elevation

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juz (Kazakh: жүз) is one of the three main traditional divisions of the Kazakh nation. It is often said that the name is taken from the number 100 in the Kazakh and Kyrgyz languages, and meant to imply a multitude or horde.
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Sultan (Arabic: سلطان) is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings. Originally it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", or "rulership", derived from the Arabic
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