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Gazi II Giray

Gazi II Giray (1554-November 1607) was Khan of Crimea from 1588 to 1596 (succeeding Islam II Giray and preceding Fetih I Giray) and from 1597 to 1607 (succeeding Fetih and preceding Toqtamis Giray). He trained as a horseman while living among the Circassians and participated in a Tatar raid on Podolia in 1575 and the Ottoman invasions of Safavid Persia. In 1588, he usurped his brother Islam with Turkish support and went on to battle the Cossacks and the Russians, besieging Moscow in 1591 before being wounded in battle. In 1594, the Tatars invaded Transylvania, and he captured and garrisoned Papa and Szekesfehervar. His army was defeated by the Wallachian voivode Michael the Brave's troops during its homeward journey in 1595, but he defeated the Habsburg-Transylvanian army at the Battle of Keresztes in 1596. He was briefly deposed by Fetih I Giray due to his alleged separatist tendencies, but he was restored in 1597 after Fetih was murdered by the Manghuds. Gazi returned to raiding Hungary until his death from the plague in 1607.

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