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Siberia Khanate is an anachronistic rendering of its actual name Khanate of Sibir, a Tatar khanate in the later Russian Siberia.
History After the Mongol invasion of Europe in the 1240's, Batu Khan's brother Shayban took control of the north eastern edge of the Ulus Jochi, controlling Mansi, Khanty and Nenets lands. He founded the Khanate of Sibir. The Khanate was mainly populated by Siberian Tatars. The khans, rulers of the territory, were usually selected from descendants of Shayban and possibly Orda. The last khan of Siberia was Kuchum, whose descendants have been known as Princes Sibirsky. The last capital was at Qashliq, and many modern Russian cities in West Siberia were founded during the Siberia Khanate period, including Tyumen and Tobolsk. During the 1450's, Muhammad Shaybani (A descendant of Shayban but not a Khan of Sibir) was forced southwards from Siberia and founded the Uzbek Khanate out of the remains of the Timurid Empire. There were then two Khanates with controlled by descendants of Shayban. Beginning in the 1580s, the Siberian Khanate, a loose political structure of vassalages, was stedily devoured by entrepreneurial Russian forces who, though numerically outnumbered, coerced the various family-based tribes into submission. Establishing distant forts from which they conducted raids, the Russians largely relied upon the native populations to rule themselves, once poddanstvo had been established, and assuming annual tributes were paid. They named the new territory Siberia, after the Sibir. In a sense, the khanate lived on in the subsidiary title "Tsar of Siberia" which became part of the full imperial style of the Russian Autocrats. See also | ||||||||
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