Key facts
- 1466
- Makhmud Astrakhan
- Capital
- Astrakhan ( Xacitarxan )
- Official languages
- Chagatai language , Kypchak
- Common languages
- Kipchak languages
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Government
- Khanate
- 1554 1556
- Darwish Ghali
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Today part ofRussia
The Khanate of Astrakhan was a Tatar rump state of the Golden Horde. The khanate existed in the 15th and 16th centuries in the area adjacent to the mouth of the Volga river, around the modern city of Astrakhan. Its khans claimed patrilineal descent from Toqa Temür, the thirteenth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan.