title: The Girys dynasty: a retrospectieve review of arabic written
abstract: The article examines the history of the Girai dynasty ruling in the Crimean Khanate, which is based on the information from Ottoman-Turkish and Crimean Tatar Arabographic written sources. Emphasis is placed on the specifics of the relations between the rulers of the Crimea and the Ottoman Empire, their contacts with Ukrainian Cossacks. The scientific novelty lies in the civilizational understanding of the historiosophy of the Girai dynasty and the Crimean ulus in the context of statehood develop
journal: Kyiv Historical Studies