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ТHEME 7. Cossack epoch, formation and development of
Ukrainian Cossacks (the and of the XV- the middle of the
XVIII centuries).

1449 The formation of the Crimean Khanate. In
the 13th century the Crimea became a ulus (a
province) of the Golde Horde; its population
(the Alans, the Polovtsians, the Slavs, the
Greeks, the Armenians and others) became
dependent on the Tatars. At the beginning of
the 14-th century a special region was formed,
which did not depend on Mongolo-Tatars. In
the thirties of the 15th century a struggle for
power began in the Crimea due to the Golden
Horde decay. It ended in 1443 with the
victory of Haci I Giray. The Golden Horde
officially recognized the Crimean Khanate.
The Crimean Khanate subdued Bilhorod,
Dzhambuilutsk, Yedykul, Yedysan, Nohaisk
and other hordes. Bakhchysarai became the
capital of the Khanate. The Crimean Khanate
carried out constant predatory raids against
Ukrainian lands.
1475 After quick marine campaign of the Turkish
sultan Mehmed II Fatyh the Crimea became
the vassal of Turkey.
1482 The first large-scale attack of the Crimean
Tatars (khan Mengli I Giray) at Kyiv resulting
in the city plundered and destroyed.
1489, 1492 The first written records of Ukrainian
Cossacks. In 1489 the Polish chronicler
Martsin Belskyi informed that the Polish king
Cazymyr’s IV son John I Albert of Poland

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