On The Relationship Of The Empire Of Timur And The Khanate Of Kipchak

In the middle of the 14th century, the force of the West Caqadai Khanate which was established by the Mongols had fallen gradually, and the Mongol Khan of the West Caqadai Khanate was becoming a puppet of those Turkic nobles who held the power of Transoxiana, Timur was one of them. Capturing the political power from the khan, Timur started to expand abroad actively, his empire was established quickly. In the early days of the Empire of Timur, the Khanate of Kipchak was split .White Horde, which was feudatory to the Khanate of Kipchak , was becoming strong gradually, they began to intervene the affairs of the suzerain. Toqtamish who was a noble of White Horde utilized the power of Timur and got the Khan's right of the Khanate of Kipchak. After that, he tried his best to break away from the control of Timur. Because of this, the two countries took place several wars for more than ten years.The wars occurred between Timur and Toqtamish could be studied through two different periods. The first period from 1383 to 1388, during the 5 years, Toqtamish attacked Timur on his own initiative and Timur had to take passive defend. The second period was from 1388 to 1396, during this period, Timur attacked Toqtamish actively, and his adversary Toqtamish had taken the passive defence .During the winter between 1395 and 1396,Timur attacked Volga River valley. Conquering Astrakhan, an important city of the Khanate of Kipchak, Timur migrated all of the residents and burned the city. Next, Timur entered into Sarari city, the Capital of the Khanate of Kipchak, the people of Sarari city didn't resist Timur's invasion, Timur entered and burned the city. later, the Khan of the Khanate of Kipchak died in internal revolts and foreign invasions. After several years, Timur died on the roads of conquering China in 1405.The wars between the Empire of Timur and the Khanate of Kipchak ended.After Timur died, his Empire was quickly collapsed. His descendants founded several small independent dynasties on the base of the former Empire . In history, we called them Timurids. Timurids continued fighting with the Khanate of Kipchak for Khwarizm. In Ulugh-beg times, Timurids reoccupied the place.The wars between Timur and the Khan of the Khanate of Kipchak caused the productivity of the Central Asia and East Europe had greatly destroyed , many commercial cities and towns were ruined , international commercial routes through these places were cut off in the war for a long time. The wars between the two countries also brought extremely disasters to people lived there, they were robbed and massacred by the war.