THE FOUNDATION OF CRIMEAN KHANATE IN 1449
The middle of the fifteenth century was the beginning of the fall of the Chingissid state — the Golden Horde. Squabbles and arguments, similarly to what had happened in Kyivan Rus, dramatically weakened the power of Karakorum, and strengthened separatist trends. It was against the background of these events that in 1449 Crimean Tatars separated from the Golden Horde and established their own state — the Crimean Khanate with the ruling house of Giray. The first Crimean khan was Hagi I Giray.
It should be mentioned that at the beginning of its existence the Crimean state was rather weak. Its continuous struggle for the power significantly destabilized the situation in Crimea. Another adverse factor for the Khanate development was economic situation
