Mahmud bin Küchük

Mahmud Astrakhani (Urdu, Persian: محمود بن کوچک) was one of Küchük Muhammad's sons and a Khan who founded the Khanate of Astrakhan in the 1460s.

Mahmud bin Küchük
Khan of the Great Horde
Reign1459–1465
PredecessorKüchük Muhammad
SuccessorAhmed Khan bin Küchük
Khan of the Tatar Astrakhan Khanate
Reign1465–1466
Predecessornone
SuccessorQasim I of Astrakhan
Bornunknown
Died1466
DynastyBorjigin
ReligionIslam

Life

After years of struggle for the throne of the Great Horde against Akhmat Khan, he escaped to the town of Hajji Tarkhan (or Xacitarxan), establishing the independent Khanate of Astrakhan there. Mahmud Astrakhani maintained friendly relations with his powerful neighbors—the Nogay Horde and the Great Horde and coined his own money.

His letter to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (as dispatched on April 10, 1466) is a curious example of diplomatic epistles written in the 15th-century Old Tatar language. The content is a necessity of renewal of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Astrakhan, and sending ambassadors to Istanbul.

For uncertainties and additional information see the second part of List of Astrakhan khans.

His son Janibeg briefly ruled Crimea in the winter of 1476/77 until he was driven out by the legitimate ruler Nur Devlet.

Genealogy

Mahmud bin Küchük
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Küchük Muhammad
Khan of the Great Horde
1459–1465
Succeeded by
Akhmat Khan
Preceded by
Position established
Khan of Astrakan
1465–1466
Succeeded by
Qasim I


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