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Following Timur 's invasion (roughly reconstituting the Persia-based Ilkhanate ), the Golden Horde started to desintegrate. The major principalities of Kazan and Crimea gained independence as princely khanates. The Russian rising power Muscovy , Astrakhan Khanate , Nogay Horde and Siberian Khanate followed. The remaining territory around capital Saray on the Volga still claimed to be the legitimate khanate of the Golden Horde, but it retained neither the political clout nor the military might of the original Golden Horde. In 1502 the Great Horde was completely destroyed by Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate , by then an Ottoman tributary state. Ultimately all these Turkic polities were to fall prey to the Russian and Cossack armies. |