The Autonomous Republic of Crimea is a de jure administrative division of Ukraine encompassing most of Crimea that was unilaterally annexed by Russia in 2014, and is now, de facto, administered as the
Ukrainian military base at Perevalne surrounded by Russian troops without military rank insignia or cockade on 9 March 2014.
Crimean Tatars
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Crimean Tatars, or simply Crimeans, are a Turkic ethnic group and nation native to Crimea. Their ethnogenesis lasted hundreds of years in Crimea and the northern regions along the coast of the Black S
Autonomous Republic of Crimea
…379,200), which is administratively separate from the autonomous republic. The peninsula was therefore estimated to have 2,352,385 people in 2007. Crimean Tatars, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority who in 2001 made up 12.10% of the population, formed in Crimea in the late Middle Ages, after the Crimean Khanate…
Crimean Tatar musician
İslâm II Giray Khan ("اسلام گيرای خان") enthroned (ruled 1584-88). Secaatname (1586)
Ozbek Han Mosque — one of the oldest mosques of the Crimea. It was built in 1314 during the rule of the Golden Horde in the peninsula
The Crimean Khan's Palace in Bakhchysarai by Carlo Bossoli