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- punkar7
- May 18, 2015
- 1 min read
Kazan raid. Russian chronicles record about forty attacks of Kazan khans on the Russian territories (mainly the regions of Nizhniy Novgorod, Murom, Vyatka, Vladimir, Kostroma, Galich) in the first half of the 16th century. Half of Kazan raids occurred in 1530s and 1540s. Besides 1521 most ruinous Kazan attacks occurred in 1522, 1533, 1537, 1538, 1539, 1540, 1541
Ivan IV (the Terrible) the first czar; expands autocracy, begins annexation of Siberia
1533-1584 Russia continued to wage wars and to expand. It grew from 2.8 to 5.4 million km2
1533-1547 Crimean-Nogai Raids
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