{
  "g": "h,empire,europe",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Crimean Khanate",
  "now": "ukraine",
  "years": "1441–1783",
  "id": "crimean-khanate",
  "index": "c/ukraine:1441",
  "title": "Banner of the Crimean Khanate",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "blue",
      "hex": "#2a8dbc",
      "note": "Sky-blue of Turkic tradition."
    },
    {
      "color": "cream",
      "hex": "#e3d8ba",
      "note": "Giray tamga."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Crimean Khanate (1441–1783) was a Turkic Muslim successor to the Golden Horde, ruled by the **Giray dynasty** — descendants of Genghis Khan — from Bakhchisaray\n - **Construction:** a blue banner charged with the distinctive **Giray tamga** (a trident-like clan mark with three vertical bars joined at a crossbar) in cream\n - A vassal of the Ottomans from 1475, the Khanate was annexed by Catherine the Great of Russia in 1783 — the first Muslim state taken by a Christian European empire",
  "flag": "empires/crimean-khanate.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Crimean Khanate",
    "officialName": "Qırım Hanlığı",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- At its height the Khanate's slave raids into Polish and Ukrainian lands captured over a million people, feeding the Ottoman slave markets\n - The Giray dynasty's claim to Mongol imperial descent gave it precedence over the Ottomans in Muslim heraldry\n - Modern Crimean Tatars trace their cultural inheritance directly to this Khanate",
  "_name": "Crimean Khanate",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "crimean-khanate"
}