WThe Khanate of Kazan was a medieval Tatar Turkic state that occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, and parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its capital was the city of Kazan. It was one of the successor states of the Golden Horde, and it came to an end when it was conquered by the Tsardom of Russia.
WKul Sharif or Qol Şärif was an Old Tatar language-poet, statesman, university professor and imam of the Khanate of Kazan.
WThe Russo-Kazan Wars was a series of wars fought between the Khanate of Kazan and Muscovite Russia from 1439, until Kazan was finally captured by Ivan the Terrible and absorbed into Muscovy in 1552.
WSöyembikä was a Tatar ruler, xanbikä. She served as regent of Kazan during the minority of her son from 1549 until 1551.
WThe Taw yağı or Viryal was a historical region of Tatarstan, Khanate of Kazan, Volga Bulgaria, the name is known since the 1550s. This land was situated at the Hill, i.e. right bank of the Volga. Since 1547, this region was disintegrated from the khanate. The Feudal lords of the Hill Bank Land eventually joined Russia following 1556. Sviyazhsk was established as the center of the Hill Bank Land. Later, this part of the former khanate was incorporated to Sviyazhsk Uyezd. The region had multiethnic population and included Tatars, Chuvashes, Hill Mari and Mordvins.
WUlugh Muhammad (1405–1445; Urdu, Persian and Arabic: ألوغ محمد; Tatar: Oluğ Möxәmmәt; written as Ulanus by orientalists. A medieval tatar statesman, Gengisid, Khan of the Golden Horde, ruler of Crimea, and Khan of Kazan.
WYadegar Mokhammad was the last khan of the Kazan Khanate. He was the son of Astrakhan khan Qasim II. Between 1542 and 1550 he was in the service of the Tsardom of Russia, participated in the attack on Kazan in 1550 and then joined the Nogais. Because of Kazan's near-defeat in 1550, in 1551 the peace party enthroned the pro-Russian khan Shah Ali. In 1552 the patriotic party regained power, Shah Ali fled and Yadegar was invited by Qol Sharif and Chapqin bek Otich uli to the throne of the Kazan Khanate. Subsequently, he led the war against the Russian invasion. See Siege of Kazan. He was captured in October 1552 when Russian troops took Kazan. In 1553 he converted to Christianity, assumed the name of Simeon Kasayevich and lived in Moscow as a Russian nobleman.