Editing Crimea (section)

===Crimean Khanate (1443–1783)===
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[[File:Crimean Khanate Map 1502.svg|thumb|The Crimean Khanate after the destruction of the [[Great Horde]] in 1502]]
In the 1440s the [[Crimean Khanate]] formed out of the collapse of the horde<ref>{{cite web|author=[[Brian Glyn Williams]]|title=The Sultan's Raiders: The Military Role of the Crimean Tatars in the Ottoman Empire|url=http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/Crimean_Tatar_-_complete_report_01.pdf|publisher=[[The Jamestown Foundation]]|year=2013|page=27|access-date=30 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021092115/http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/Crimean_Tatar_-_complete_report_01.pdf|archive-date=21 October 2013}}</ref> but quite rapidly itself became  subject to the [[Ottoman Empire]], which also conquered the coastal areas which had kept independent of the Khanate. A major source of prosperity in these times were [[Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe|frequents raids into Eastern Europe for slaves]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Mikhail Kizilov |author-link=Mikhail Kizilov |title=Slave Trade in the Early Modern Crimea From the Perspective of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources |url=https://www.academia.edu/2971600 |journal=[[Journal of Early Modern History]]|year=2007 |volume=11 |issue=1–2 |page=1 |doi=10.1163/157006507780385125 }}</ref>