Then, as the Golden Horde itself collapsed, a separate Kazan Khanate seceded, only to be annexed by Russia in the middle of the 16th century. Islam remains important in public life. Kazan is home to ...

For example, the Khanate of Kazan fell in 1551 because it was internally weak, diplomatically isolated and incapable of fighting back. Siberia was conquered by 1558 by gangs of volunteers led by ...

The Khanate of Kazan was a successor state of the Mongol Golden Horde, established in 1438. Located on the Volga River, Kazan was a wealthy, strategically vital Muslim state that frequently raided ...

Kazan, conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1552, marks the end of the Kazan Khanate and the beginning of Russian expansion eastward.

TEHRAN – A collection of cultural offerings including rare books and manuscripts of the Holy Quran and classic Persian literary works has been put on show at the Museum of Islamic Culture in Kazan’s ...

The Yasen-M class Kazan’s “most notable” feature is the capability to launch a range of anti-ship and land attack missiles. Heralding days of the tense Cold War, particularly the Cuban ...

Commissioned by infamous Ivan the Terrible, the cathedral was built in the 16th century to commemorate the victory over The Khanate of Kazan.

The cemetery of Kazan is called Arsk Field, derived from Archa Darugha, one of the administrative divisions of what was the ancient Khanate of Kazan, in turn part of the Golden Horde, until the 16th ...

For most of the Middle Ages, Kazan was governed by the Kazan Khanate, an Islamic Tartar state that prohibited the artistic representation of people or animals; and while the Zilant is thought to ...

They conquered the Kazan Khanate in 1552 and Astrakhan Khanate in 1556, abolished the Great Nogai Horde in 1557, and took the Siberian Khanate in 1582.