Selim II Giray (reigned 1743–1748, lived 1708–1748) was a khan of the

Crimean Khanate The Crimean Khanate ( crh, , or ), officially the Great Horde and Desht-i Kipchak () and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary ( la, Tartaria Minor), was a Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441 to ...

. His father was

Qaplan I Giray Qaplan I Giray was three times khan of the Crimean Khanate. He was the son of Selim I Giray and thus one of the six brothers who ruled for most the period from 1699 to 1743. During his first reign he was defeated by the Kabardians. His second r ...

and his son was future khan

Qaplan II Giray Qaplan II Giray, Qalpan Khan Girai II (1739–1771) was a Crimean khan of the late 18th century. Biography Qaplan ruled from 1769 to 1770, a very brief reign. During his time as khan of the Crimean Khanate, he negotiated with the Russian Emp ...

(1770). He was obedient to and praised by the Turks and kept peace with Russia by returning captives and suppressing Kuban Nogai raiding. He was nicknamed Qatti, meaning something like solid or unshakeable. In 1742 he was made kalga by his uncle

Selâmet II Giray Selyamet II Giray (reigned 1740–1743, lived 1691–1751) was a khan of the Crimean Khanate. His four-year reign was relatively uneventful. He was described as honest, gentle, pious and inclined to charity and good works. He was the youngest son o ...

. In November 1743 he was promoted to khan when the Turks deposed Selyamet. One reason may have been that the Ottomans wanted a stronger man if they needed Crimean troops to fight Persia. He chose as kalga Shahin, a son of former kalga Adil.possibly the same person who was kalga during the third reign of

from 1730 His first nureddin was Selim, a son of Kuban warlord Bakhti Giray. When nureddin Selim died he appointed Akhmed, a son of Mekhmed Giray and grandson of

Devlet II Giray Devlet II Giray (1648–1718) was Khan of the Crimean Khanate from 1699 to 1702 and from 1709 to 1713. His eldest son was Selim II Giray. First Rule (1699–1702) Selim I Giray, after his retirement in 1699, recommended Devlet II Giray Khan ...

. Around the time he came to the throne there was a famine in Istanbul. Selim sent significant amounts of grain. In 1745 he was called by the Turks to fight Persia. He led 10 thousand men by ship from Gozleve while either the kalga or nureddin or Kasim Giray led either 10 or 20 thousand men overland. Our sources do not say what happened, but he is reported to have fought better than the Turks and was praised for it. This was at the time of the

Ottoman–Persian War (1743–1746) The Ottoman–Persian War of 1743–1746 was fought between the Ottoman Empire and Afsharid Iran. Background Persia attempted to ratify the Treaty of Constantinople (1736), by demanding that the Ja'fari, also known as the Imamiyyah was to be a ...

when Nader Shah tried to take some traditionally Ottoman land around Kars. In the winter of 1746/1747 he was in Istanbul for consultations. He left in February 1747 and soon dismissed kalga Shahin Giray for unknown reasons. Shahin went to Yambol but in February 1748 he went north and raised a rebellion among the Budzak Nogais. He was defeated, fled to Poland and the Turks demanded his expulsion. He was forgiven and exiled to Chios. Selim died at Bakhchisarai in May 1748 and was followed by

Arslan Giray Arslan Giray (reigned 1748–1756 and 1767, lived 1692–1768) was twice khan of the Crimean khanate. He was the second son of Devlet II Giray (1699). His son was Devlet IV Giray (1769) and his grandson was the historian Halim Giray. Two of his ...

Selim II Giray fountain

The Selim II Giray fountain, built in 1747, is considered one of the masterpieces of Crimean Khanate's hydraulic engineering designs and is still marvelled at in modern times. It consists of small

ceramic A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain ...

pipes Pipe(s), PIPE(S) or piping may refer to: Objects * Pipe (fluid conveyance), a hollow cylinder following certain dimension rules ** Piping, the use of pipes in industry * Smoking pipe ** Tobacco pipe * Half-pipe and quarter pipe, semi-circula ...

, boxed in an underground stone tunnel, stretching back to the spring source more than 200 metres away, and was one of the finest sources of water in

Bakhchisaray Bakhchysarai ( crh, Bağçasaray, italic=yes; russian: Бахчисара́й; ua, Бахчисара́й; tr, Bahçesaray) is a town in Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Re ...

Sources and notes

*Henry Hoyle Howorth, History of the Mongols, 1880, Part 2, pp 581-582. *Smirnov, Krimskoye Khanstvo b XVIII Beke, 1887, Chapter 4 http://www.krimoved-library.ru/books/krimskoe-hanstvo-v-xviii-veke4.html (in Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Giray, Selim II Crimean Khans 18th-century deaths 18th-century rulers in Europe Year of birth unknown