Mehmed I. Giray

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Meñli I. Giray with his eldest son, who later became Khan Mehmed I. Giray (left) and the Turkish Sultan Bayezid II (right)

Mehmed I. Giray , called the Great (* 1465 ; † 1523 ) was Khan of the Crimea from 1515 . He took over the rule of the khanate after the death of his father Meñli I. Giray .

On October 25, 1520, Mehmed I allied himself with the Polish King Sigismund I , who was at war with the Muscovite in his capacity as Grand Duke of Lithuania (Muscovite-Lithuanian War 1512–1522). In 1521 he moved against the Khanate of Kazan , where he put his younger brother Sahib I. Giray on the local throne in the spring . With the combined forces of both khanates and strengthened by an alliance with Poland-Lithuania , he marched against the Muscovite Empire in July 1521. He defeated the army of the Muscovite Grand Duke on the Oka and immediately reached the walls of Moscow . Grand Duke Vasily III. The siege of his capital forced himself to pay tribute to the Khan of the Crimea.

Khan Mehmed was in the fall of 1523 almost immediately after the conquest of Astrakhan by Nogay murdered. Azı I. Giray succeeded him in the office of Khan .

See also: List of Crimean Khans

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SURNAME Mehmed I. Giray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Khan of the Crimea
DATE OF BIRTH 1465
DATE OF DEATH 1523