page_title: Khanate
section_title: Central Asian Turkic khanates
hierarchical_section_title: Khanate / Turkic khanates / Central Asian Turkic khanates
caption_attribution_description: English: Mongolian domains and relict states of the Mongol Empire
context_page_description: A khaganate or khanate was a political entity ruled by a khan, khagan, khatun, or khanum. This political entity is typical for people from the Eurasian Steppe and it can be equivalent to tribal chiefdom, principality, kingdom or empire.
context_section_description: Kazakh khanate
  Senior Juz
  Middle Juz
  Junior Juz
   Khanate of Kazan – The Mongol term khan became active when the Genghizide dynasty was settled in Kazan Duchy in the 1430s; imperial Russia added to its titles the former Kazan khanate with the royal style tsar.
  Sibirean Khanate – source of the name Siberia, as the first significant conquest during Russia's great eastern expansion across the Urals
  Astrakhan Khanate
   Crimean Khanate
  Qasim Khanate (hence modern Kasimov) – named after its founder, a vassal of Moscovia/Russia
  Bukey Horde, Bokei or Buqei; also known as the Inner or Interior Horde –  This state founded in 1801 by Sultan Bukey under Russian suzerainty, and restyled as  the khanate of the Inner Horde in 1812. 5,000–7,500 families of Kazakhs from the Younger Kazakh Zhuz tribe settled between the Volga and Yaik (Ural) rivers. In 1845 the post of khan was abolished, and Russia took over the region.
   Nogai Khanate
  The khanate of Tuva near Outer Mongolia.
  Besh Tau El
  Khanate of Kashgaria – Kashgaria was founded in 1514 as part of Djagataide Khanate; in the 17th century it was divided into several minor khanates without importance, with real power going to the so-called Khwaja, Arabic Islamic religious leaders. It became the Yarkent Khanate  which was annexed by the Dzungar Khanate in the Dzungar conquest of Altishahr in 1680.
  Kumul Khanate – a vassal state to Qing dynasty and Republic of China, abolished in 1930
  Kimek Khanate
   Khanate of Bukhara
   Khanate of Kokand
  Xueyantuo
  Karluk Khanate
  White Horde
  Oghuz Yabgu State
  West Turkic Khaganate
caption: The Turco-Mongol residual states and domains by the 15th century
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