Shaybanids

The term Shelbanides (often Schaibaniden ) one often sees an Uzbek dynasty of the 16th century, which was founded by Mohammed Sheibani. Generally speaking, the word Shelbanides but refers to all male descendants Scheibans, who was the fifth son of Jochi Khan and a grandson of Genghis Khan. By the middle of the 14th century were under the Shelbanides the authority of their more senior relatives, that is, the descendants of Batu Khan on the Volga (eg Uzbek Khan) and Orda Khan in today's Kazakhstan. During the 14th century its princes embraced Islam.

When the line Batu Khan became extinct due to power struggles mid-14th century, brought the Shelbanides as more or less legitimate successor Jochi Khan's their claim to the entire Ulus, which also included Siberia and Kazakhstan. Their main rivals were the descendants of Orda Khan and Timur Tuqa, ie Jochi Khan's oldest and thirteenth son. Some decades of disputes brought their rivals the control of the Golden Horde and its European successor states, including the Khanate of Kazan, Astrakhan, and the Crimea.

Despite the setbacks in Europe urged in the early 15th century a branch of Shelbanides south or after Transoxiana, where he managed after a century of conflict, to eliminate the Timurid rule. It was Abu'I - Chair Khan (ruled 1428-68 ), who (that became known hereafter as " Uzbeks " ) with the unification of the tribes in the area between Tyumen and the Tura River on the one hand and the Syr -Darya region began on the other. His grandson Mohammed Sheibani (reigned 1500-10 ) wrested Samarkand, Bukhara and Herat, the control of the Timurid Babur and established the short-lived dynasty of Shelbanides. He was succeeded by his uncle, a nephew and several cousins, their descendants Bukhara and Samarkand to 1598 dominated ( cf. Uzbek Khanate ).

Another branch, the descendants of Arabsah (reigned about 1378 in the Volga area) founded in the Khanate of Khiva Chwarezm, which they dominated until the early 18th century into it.

Another state which was ruled by Shelbanides was the Khanate Sibir, whose last ruler Kütschüm Khan has been sold in 1598 by the Russians. His son and grandson were taken from the Czar to Moscow and received the surname Sibirsky. Besides this famous branch demanded other noble families from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan by the Russian government recognition of their Scheibanidenwurzeln, but mostly in vain.