Lecture 14: The Tatars and the Crimean Khanate

Professor Paul Robert Magocsi — Ukraine: A History Course.

The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. Magocsi recorded 45 lectures in 2023 at the University of Toronto, where he holds the professorial Chair of Ukrainian Studies and is a history and political science professor. He is also a Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.

Magocsi, one of the world’s leading experts on Ukraine, explores this fascinating country in all its complexity, from its history, culture, geography, politics, and multi-ethnic composition. The lectures are an important counterweight to Russian propaganda and explain Ukraine’s importance to global security today.

Time stamps are available for each lecture. Auto-translate is available in Ukrainian, major European, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages, including Hebrew and Yiddish.

Recordings of the lecture series were made possible with the support of the Temerty Foundation.

All the lectures are available on YouTube here.

4:03 The Golden Horde map
6:34 Kazan Khanate, Crimean Khanate, Astrakhan Khanate, Nogays map
10:18 Hacı I Giray
12:39 Theodoro-Mangup Principality
14:39 Mangup. Palace of the Princes of Theodoro
15:01 Caffe placed under Ottoman rule
23:09 Nogay Tatar tribe
24:29 Clan territories (beylik): Shirin, Barin, Argin, Yashlav, Mangit/Mansur, Kipchak
32:35 Bakhchysaray, Crimean Khan palace
34:22 Crimean and Nogay Tatars
36:52 Nogay Tatar (left) and Crimean Tatar (right) slave raiders in 16th-century Ukraine
39:58 Perekop, slave trading routes, Or-Kapi Fortress at Perekop
44:02 Roxolana (Hasseki Hürrem Sultan)

For further information, you may wish to consult: A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples (University of Toronto Press, 2010)

Robert Paul Magocsi
Chair of Ukrainian Studies University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada, September 2023.