Turkic-Tatar successor khanate to the Golden Horde on the middle Volga, established when Ulugh Muhammad seized the throne of Kazan in 1438; a major regional power contesting Muscovy for over a century.
Conquered by Ivan the Terrible's forces after the Siege of Kazan in October 1552; the last khan, Yadegar Moxammat, was captured and the territory absorbed into the Tsardom of Russia, followed by forced Russification and Christianization.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Khanate of Kazan — the shape you scrub through changes in 1438 · 1479 · 1496.
Polity-specific Osprey Men-at-Arms volume covering Kazan Khanate military and political history; no dedicated academic monograph on Kazan was found verified on Open Library, so this specific title is used ahead of a broad survey per the no-lazy-sourcing rule.