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
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
Crimean Khanate
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The Crimean Khanate, self-defined as the Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak, and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary, was a Crimean Tatar state established by Hacı I
Crimean Tatars
…conquest of the Principality of Theodoro in 1475. Following the Turkish occupation, Southern Crimea came under direct Ottoman Turkish rule, while the Crimean Khanate in northern regions was vassalized. The Crimean Tatars are most often subdivided into three core sub-ethnic groups…
Uzbek Khan Mosque in Eski Qırım (Solhat), built in the Golden Horde period
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Tatars fighting Zaporozhian Cossacks, by Józef Brandt