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After the last ruler of this state was dragged out of a French embassy and executed on Rhodes, its lands were the subject of a reconnaissance mission by the travel writer Elizabeth Craven. After setting a rival state’s capital ablaze, this state was defeated by artillery fire from “walking forts” at the Battle of Molodi. This state led “harvesting” expeditions to the dyke pole (15[1])(“DICK-eh POLE-eh”), or “wild field,” with its vassals, the Nogai mirzas. Kabardia was made a nominal vassal of this state, while this state itself (-5[1])was removed from the (*) Ottoman sphere of influence, (10[1])by (10[1])the Treaty of Küçük (10[1])Kaynarca (10[2])(“koo-CHOOK kye-nar-JAH”). After annexing this state ruled by the (10[1])Giray (10[2])dynasty, (10[1])Catherine the Great (10[1])embarked on the (10[1])“Taurida Voyage” to view its lands, apocryphally leading Grigory Potemkin to populate it with fake villages. For 10 points, name this longest-lived successor to the Golden Horde, a (-5[1])khanate based on (10[1])a peninsula bordering the Sea of Azov. ■END■ (10[1])

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