Mishar Yurt ( tt-Cyrl, Мишәр йорты, , ; in Russian chronicles – ''Мещерский юртСлавянская энциклопедия. lavic encyclopediaMoscow, 2003. Vol. 2, p. 671\Meshcherskiy yurt''; literally ''The home of Mişärs'') was a semi-autonomous principality of the

Golden Horde The Golden Horde, self-designated as Ulug Ulus, 'Great State' in Turkic, was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. With the fragment ...

at the border of

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and

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duchies.

History

At the epoch of

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those land, originally inhabited by Mokshas, was settled by Turkic peoples, tended to be

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. In 1298 Hosayen ughli Mohammad from family of Shirin founded a principality that united local Turkic and Finnic peoples. The capital of Mishar Yurt was

Mişär Mishar Tatar or Misher Tatar, also Western Tatar (Мишәр, ''Mişär'', Мишәр Татар, ''Mişär Tatar'', көнбатыш татар, ''könbatış tatar''), is a dialect of Tatar spoken by Mishar Tatars mainly located at Penza, Ulyan ...

(in Russian chronicles Городок-Мещёрский/Gorodok-Meşçórski). In 1393

Tokhtamysh Tokhtamysh ( kz, Тоқтамыс, tt-Cyrl, Тухтамыш, translit=Tuqtamış, fa, توقتمش),The spelling of Tokhtamysh varies, but the most common spelling is Tokhtamysh. Tokhtamısh, Toqtamysh, ''Toqtamış'', ''Toqtamıs'', ''Toktamy ...

gave Mishar Yurt to

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. After the victory in the

Battle of Suzdal The Battle of Suzdal or the Battle of the Kamenka River was fought on July 7, 1445, between Russians under Vasily II and Tatar troops of Oluğ Möxämmäd, who invaded the principality of Nizhny Novgorod. The Russians were defeated by troops of b ...

in 1445 Vasili II of Russia was forced to present this land to Qasim Khan. Another version is that

Qasim Khanate Qasim Khanate or Kingdom of Qasim or Khanate of Qasım ( tt-Cyrl, Касыйм ханлыгы/Касыйм патшалыгы; russian: Касимовское ханство/Касимовское царство, ''Kasimovskoye khanstvo/Kasimo ...

appeared there was created as a

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between Kazan and Moscow.

References

Literature

*Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles. Postnikovsky chronicler. Vol.34. Moscow, 1978 *Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles. Piskarevskiy chronicler. Vol.34. Moscow, 1978 *Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles. Moskovsky chronicler. Vol.34. Moscow, 1978 *Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles. Belsky chronicler. Vol.34. Moscow, 1978 *Славянская энциклопедия. lavic encyclopediaMoscow, 2003. Vol.2, p. 671

External links

Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles
(in Russian)

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History

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