Abstract
The Process of Founding the Crimean Khanate: Establishment of Tatar Hegemony in the Peninsula
Migration of Turks to the Crimean Peninsula began in the Hunnic age. After the Mongolic invasion, importance of the Peninsula increased; Turkic groups started to move southward, and changed their lifestyle from nomadism to sedentarism. Both that the Crimea was of strategically important for the Golden Horde, and that it be-came focal point in the internal strives paved the way for the making of State tradition.
Keywords
the Crimean Peninsula, the Golden Horde, Tatars, the Crimean Khanate, Geneoises.