Idar of Kabardia

Prince Idar (Circassian: Айдар) was a Circassian ruler of the Caucasus. He was the son of Prince Inarmaz, and the grandson of Prince Tabula.^[1] Prince Inarmaz himself was the eldest of the three grandsons of Prince Inal.^[2] His rule spanned over the period of 1525 to 1540.^[3]

Reign

Prince Inal had established a strong empire in the fifteenth century uniting all Circassians, and Abkhazians. However, after his death Kabarda was riven into rival principalities. Civil war ensued and Prince Idar emerged as the sole potentiate.^[4] During his reign, just like his predecessor, the Kabardian Circassians dominated the North Caucasus in the late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century. They established diplomatic contacts with the Ottoman Empire, and the Russians.^[5]

In the late 1520s the Christian Kabardians, mounted a campaign against the Muslim Crimean Tatars. The Kabardians used their fleet of ships to transport the cavalry and the two-wheeled war chariots across the sea to the Crimean Peninsula. The Kabardians attacked Bakhchisarai, the capital of the Crimean Khanate at the time, located in the southwest of the Peninsula, and were victorious, bringing back great spoil, including 100 chariots packed full with cloth, a precious commodity at the time.^[3]

Family

He had four sons, Prince Temryuk, Prince Bita, Prince Zhelegot, and Prince Kanbulat.^[6][7] He had two daughters, Altynchach, who married Bekbulat, a Chinggisid, and khan of Astrakhan Khanate,^[8] and Malkhurub,^[9] who married Tin Ahmed, beg of Nogai Horde.^[10]

See also

• Kabardians

References

1. Godet, Martine (2004). Stratégies impériales: Expansion, colonisation, intégration, conversion. Éd. de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. p. 14. ISBN 978-2-713-22008-1.
2. Society, Hakluyt (1970). Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society. The Society. p. 282.
3. Jaimoukha, Amjad. A Brief History of Kabarda [from the Seventh Century AD]. p. 19.
4. Skutsch, Carl (November 7, 2014). Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. Routledge. p. 676. ISBN 978-1-135-19388-1.
5. Besleney, Zeynel Abidin (March 21, 2014). The Circassian Diaspora in Turkey: A Political History. Routledge. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-317-91004-6.
6. Cahiers du monde russe, Volume 45. Centre d'études sur la Russie, l'Europe orientale et le domaine turc de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. 2004. p. 14. ISBN 978-2-713-22008-1.
7. Bedi Karthlisa. "Le Destin de la Géorgie." Revue de Karthvélologie. 1961. p. 146.
8. Khodarkovsky, Michael (October 18, 2011). Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus. Cornell University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-801-46289-4.
9. Mal'bakhov, Boris (2002). Кабарда на этапах политической истории: (seredina XVI-pervai︠a︡ chetvertʹ XIX) века. Поматур. pp. 23, 175. ISBN 978-5-862-08106-0.
10. Khodarkovsky, Michael (February 22, 2002). Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800. Indiana University Press. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-253-10877-7.

External links

• "Prince Cherkassky in the public service of Russia". Archived from the original on 4 May 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
• Shora Nogmov. . Archived from the original on 29 November 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2014.