The Lesser Nogai Horde, not to be confused with the (Greater)

Nogai Horde The Nogai Horde was a confederation founded by the Nogais that occupied the Pontic–Caspian steppe from about 1500 until they were pushed west by the Kalmyks and south by the Russians in the 17th century. The Mongol tribe called the Manghuds con ...

on the Caspian, was the Nogai Tatar territory in

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(on the eastern shore of the

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), allied with the

Crimean Khanate The Crimean Khanate, self-defined as the Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak, and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary, was a Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441 to 1783, the longest-lived of th ...

, during the 16th and 17th centuries. The horde was also known simply as Nogai Tatars.

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