Editing Golden Horde (section)

=== Crimean Khanate (1449) ===

In 1449, Hacı I Giray seized Crimea from Ahmad I, and founded the Crimean Khanate.{{sfn|Vernadsky|1953|p=329}} The Crimean Khanate considered its state as the heir and legal successor of the Golden Horde and [[Desht-i Kipchak]], called themselves khans of "the Great Horde, the Great State and the Throne of the Crimea".<ref>Documents of the Crimean khanate from the collection of Huseyn Feyzkhanov / comp. and the transliteration. R. R. Abdujalilov; scientific. edited by I. Mingaleev. – Simferopol: LLC "Konstanta". 2017.  816 p. {{ISBN|978-5-906952-38-7}}</ref><ref>Sagit Faizov. Letters of khans Islam Giray III and Muhammad Giray IV to Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich and king Jan Kazimir, 1654–1658: Crimean Tatar diplomacy in polit. post-Pereyaslav context. time. Moscow: Humanitarii, 2003.  166 p. {{ISBN|5-89221-075-8}}</ref>