Khanate of Sibir

The Khanate of Sibir, was a Turco-Mongol Khanate located in central Siberia. Throughout its history reign over the Sibir Khanate, was often contested between members of the illustrious Shaybanids and Taibugids, both of these competing tribes were direct patrilineal descendants of Genghis Khan through his eldest son Jochi and his fifth son Shayban (Shiban). The Sibir Khanate was itself once an integral part of the Mongol Empire, White Horde and the notable Golden Horde.

The Sibir Khanate had an ethnically diverse population of Siberian Tatars, Khanty, Mansi, Nenets and Selkup people. The Sibir Khanate was the northernmost Muslim state in recorded history. It was also the second northernmost Turkic state after the Yakuts.

Its conquest by Yermak Timofeyevich in 1582 was the beginning of the Russian conquest of Siberia.

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