Focusing on Ottoman and Crimean policies and their involvement in the North Caucasus in the second half of the sixteenth century as a case study, this paper sheds light on the nature of the political arrangement between the Ottoman empire and the Crimean khanate in this period. Agreeing with scholars who argue that the Crimean khanate’s relationship with the Ottoman empire cannot be classified as vassalage, the present article treats the North Caucasus as a newly emerging borderland and a ‘micro north’ to better understand the framework in which the Crimean khanate functioned as a unit within the Ottoman system.

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奥斯曼帝国与北高加索的克里米亚汗国：16 世纪中叶奥斯曼-克里米亚关系的案例研究

本文以 16 世纪下半叶奥斯曼帝国和克里米亚的政策及其在北高加索地区的参与为案例研究，揭示了这一时期奥斯曼帝国与克里米亚汗国之间政治安排的性质。同意学者们认为克里米亚汗国与奥斯曼帝国的关系不能归类为附庸的观点，本文将北高加索视为新兴的边疆和“微型北方”，以更好地理解克里米亚汗国作为奥斯曼体系内的一个单位。