Qasím Khan (or ''Qasim of Kasimov'') (died 1469) was the first
khan
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of the
Tatar Qasim Khanate, from 1452
to his death in 1469. He was the son of
Kazan khan
Oluğ Möxämmäd
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.
He participated in the battles of
Belyov in 1437 and of
Suzdal
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in 1445. After the
Battle of Suzdal, he and his brother Yaqub were sent to
Moscow to control the results of the treaty. He stayed at the palace of
Vasili II of Russia to serve him. (When his father died in 1445 the Kazan throne went to his elder brother
Mäxmüd which may have something to do with his decision to enter Russian service.) In 1449 at the Pakhra river near Moscow he defeated troops of
Sayid Ahmad I, the khan of the
Great Horde, that came to conquer
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. In 1447–1453 he supported Vasili in his struggle against
Dmitry Shemyaka. In 1452 Vasili II granted him a principality in
Ryazan Principality, in territory formerly of
Mishar Yurt, as a hereditary estate and
Kasimov city. Those lands were designated the
Qasim Khanate. During the
1467–1469 war the Russians attempted to make him Khan of Kazan. In 1469 he was followed by his son Daniyal.
See also
*
Mäxmüd
*
Kasimov
References
*Henry Hoyle Howorth, History of the Mongols, 1880, Part 2, pp 429–230
Qasim Khanate
15th-century births
1469 deaths
15th-century monarchs in Europe
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