page_title: Khanate of Sibir
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Khanate of Sibir / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of Russia (Moscovia) published by Sigismund von Herberstein in 1549. Fragment: NE corner Русский: Тюмень (Чинги-Тура) на карте Сигизмунда фон Герберштейна опубликованной в 1549 году. Italiano: Carta della Russia (Moscovia) pubblicata da Sigismund von Herberstein nel 1549. Frammento: Angolo NE
context_page_description: The Khanate of Sibir, also historically called the Khanate of Turan, was a Turkic Khanate located in southwestern Siberia with a Turco-Mongol ruling class. Throughout its history, members of the Shaybanid and Taibugid dynasties often contested the rulership over the Khanate between each other; both of these competing tribes were direct patrilineal descendants of Genghis Khan through his eldest son Jochi and Jochi's fifth son Shayban. The area of the Khanate was itself once an integral part of the Mongol Empire, and later came under the control of the White Horde and of the Golden Horde.
  The Khanate of Sibir ruled an ethnically diverse population of Turkic Siberian Tatars, Bashkirs and speakers of various Uralic languages including the Khanty, Mansi and Selkup. The Sibir Khanate was the northernmost Muslim state in recorded history.
  Its defeat by Yermak Timofeyevich in 1582 marked the beginning of the Russian conquest of Siberia.
context_section_description: The Khanate of Sibir was founded in the fifteenth century, at a time when the Mongols of the house of Jochi were generally in a state of decline. The original capital of the Khans was Chimgi-Tura. The first Khan was Taibuga, who was a member of the Borjigin. He was succeeded by his son Khoja or Hoca, who was in turn succeeded by his son Mar.
  The Taibugids' control of the region between the Tobol and middle Irtysh was not uncontested. The Shaybanids, descendants of Jochi, frequently claimed the area as their own. Ibak Khan, a member of a junior branch of the Shaybanid house, killed Mar and seized Chimgi-Tura. A Taibugid restoration occurred when Mar's grandson Muhammad fled to the eastern territories around the Irtysh and killed Ibak in battle in c. 1493. Muhammad decided not to remain at Chimgi-Tura, but chose a new capital named Iskar (or Sibir) located on the Irtysh.
  The Russian conquest of Kazan in 1552 prompted the Taibugid Khan of Sibir, Yadigar, to seek friendly relations with Moscow. Yadigar, however, was challenged by a Shaybanid, Ibak's grandson Kuchum. Several years of fighting (1556–1563) ended with Yadigar's death and Kuchum becoming Khan.
caption: Tumen on Sigismund von Herberstein's map, published in 1549
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