The Mongol Caucasian Khanate's territory is believed to include the former Soviet Republics of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, as well as a strip of
northern Iran running roughly from the Turkish border to Resht on the Caspian Sea. The khanate's capital is Tblisi,
History
The Mongol Caucasian Khanate was created by the successful invasion of Georgia and Armenia by a Mongol Army from the Khanate of the High Altai in a series of campaigns in the years 2009 to 2013. In the latter year, the commanding general, an ethnic Russian named Vladimir Yezhov was made khan of the newly created khanate. Yezhov took the Mongol name Mongke
and has ruled that state ever since. Mongke has pursued an unusually tame foreign policy for a Mongol khan, avoiding large scale wars of aggression against his neighbors. As a result of this, the Caucasian Khanate has failed to spawn off any new khanates and it finds itself bordering only one potential foe: the ruthless and well equipped Turkish Sultanate of Adana.
Diplomatic Situation
The Mongol Caucasian Khanate is at peace with its immediate neighbors. It has one client kingdom, the Emirate of the Crimean Tartars, a relationship dating back to 2018, when the Caucasian Khan rescued the hard pressed Tartars, who were losing a war with the Ukraine. The Caucasian Khanate has been at war with the UKA since the Royal Navy
SEAL team destroyed a Crimean Tartar warship under construction in Yevpatoria in 2041. Despite this, the are no other known engagements between Commonwealth forces and the Caucasian Mongols.
The Imperial Family
Khan Mongke is sixty-seven years old. He has a reputation for being a wise and prudent ruler. He has numerous wives and dozens of children. His First Wife, Yekaterina, has been married to him for nearly fifty years and is reputed to possess considerable influence over the khan. His eldest son and heir,
Yesugei, is 46, and has the reputation for being, by current Mongol standards, a savvy technocrat.
The Caucasian Khanate has no hostile neighbors as it is currently at peace with the Turks. At least one, and perhaps two of its cavalry Tumans have been loaned to neighboring khanates. The remainder of the army is deployed along the Turkish border or in internal garrisons.
Military Situation
Army Organization
The Caucasian Khanate uses the same basic military organization of all the other Mongol states. The striking arm of the army is the horse cavalry, organized in 10,000 man units called Tumans, each subdivided into ten 1,000 man regiments. Most Tumans
have several batteries of artillery, usually blackpowder, but increasingly more modern captured Japanese or Roman weapons. Current estimates give the Ukrainian Mongols 4 Tumans of cavalry, one Mongol Guard Keshik, one Cossack, one Georgian, and one Uzbek. The foot Tumans, two Armenian, one Georgian, and nine Azerbaijani
subject levies, are organized similarly, but are much inferior in equipment and morale. It is not believed that the Caucasian Khanate possesses any armored vehicles.
Military Equipment
Troops of the first regiment of the Mongol Keshik are armed with refurbished Soviet AKs, the others with a mixture of bolt action rifles of diverse provenance. The other cavalry Tumans are armed with about 50% bolt action rifles, mainly recently captured Roman 6.5mm Carcanos or Japanese 7.7mm Toyotas,
and 50% with black powder carbines. All have Tumans one battery of 81mm Roman or Japanese mortars and two batteries of muzzleloading guns. All Caucasian Mongol Army horsemen carry bows, swords, and lances in addition to their regular arms. The subject levy infantry are armed with black powder smoothbore muskets of domestic manufacture.
Economy
The Caucasian Khanate, having been created circa 2010, has an elaborate trade network with its neighboring khanates. It shares a long, but mountainous border with the Turks. There is some land trade, but prohibitive costs
keep its foreign trade primarily restricted to trade with the Turks or with the Turks acting as middle men on the Black Sea from the ports of Novorossisk, Sochi, Poti, and Batumi. The Caucasian Khanate does not permit trade between its subjects and the UKA or Commonwealth. Known exports include:
slaves, wheat, sheep, pigs, goats, cattle, and horses. Imports tend to be manufactured goods, especially munitions. The Caucasian Khanate is one of the most technologically progressive of the Mongol states. It has manufacturing centers in Yevlak and Tblisi, and produces the great bulk of Mongol petroleum products in the Baku area.
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