Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Crimean Tatars (Qırımtatar (aka Qırım, Qırımlı and Qırım türkü), Pl. Qırımtatarlar (aka Qırımlar, Qırımlılar, Qırım türkleri)) are a Turkic ethnic group originally residing in the Crimean peninsula. They speak the Crimean Tatar language. In modern times, in addition to living in Crimea, there is a large diaspora of the Crimean Tatars in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Western Europe and North America. (See Crimean Tatar diaspora for more information)

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Crimean Tatars are descendants of Turkic (Bulgars, Khazars, Petchenegs and Kypchaks) and non-Turkic (Scythians, Sarmatians, Cimmerians, Alans, Greeks, Goths) peoples who had settled in Eastern Europe as early as the 7th century. The earliest non-Turkic population was assimilated to Turkic. Current name is in use since 13th century when Crimea was occupied by Mongols (or Tatars, as they were known in Europe and Russia). The mountain and coastal Tatars, the Tats have a Caucasian outlook, while those of the steppe and the Nogais retain Central Asian physical features. The Crimean ...

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   total    density    urban 2,000,192 77/km 62.8% The Crimea /kraɪˈmia/ is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. It is home to the Crimean Tatars, who comprise thirteen percent of the population. The official name is Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим, Avtonomna Respublika Krym; Russian: Including:

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Today there are over 300,000 Crimean Tatar speakers. Until 1989, 90% of the Crimean Tatars lived in the Fergana Valley within Uzbekistan, where they were forcibly deported in 1944. Today 250,000 Crimean Tatar live in Crimea. About 24,000 Crimean Tatars live in Romania and another 3,000 in Bulgaria. More than 1,500,000 inhabitants of Turkey are Turkish-speaking Crimean Tatars who emigrated in the 19th centu ...

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Named for the ancient Tauris, land of the Tauri, Taurida was a part of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century and its successor state, the Kipchak Khanate of the Golden Horde. The region was the center of the nomadic Nogai Tatars and was sometimes known as "Little Tartary." In the 15th century, Taurida became the locus of the Crimean Khanate which was under the suzerainty of the expanding Ottoman Empire. In 1783, the Khanate was annexed by Catherine the Great’s Russia and this was recognized by the Ottomans in the Treaty of Jassy that concl ...

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Crimea - Early History. The earliest inhabitants of whom we have any authentic traces were the Cimmerians, who were expelled by the Scythians during the 7th century BC. A remnant that took refuge in the mountains became known subsequently as the Tauri. In that same century, Greek colonists began to settle on the coasts, e.g. Dorians from Heraclea at Chersonesus, and Ionians from Miletus at Theodosia and Pa ...

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Crimea - Early History. The earliest inhabitants of whom we have any authentic traces were the Cimmerians, who were expelled by the Scythians during the 7th century BC. A remnant that took refuge in the mountains became known subsequently as the Tauri. In that same century, Greek colonists began to settle on the coasts, e.g. Dorians from Heraclea at Chersonesus, and Ionians from Miletus at Theodosia and Pa ...

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The Crimea borders the Kherson region from the North; the rest of the border is the Black Sea in the South and West and the Sea of Azov in the East. Its area is 26,100 square kilometres with a population of 2.0 million (2004-05-01). The capital is Simferopol. Crimea is connected to the Ukrainian mainland by the 5–7 kilometre (3–4 mile) wide Isthmus of Perekop. At the eastern tip is the Kerch Peninsula, which is directly opposite the Taman Peninsula on the Russian mainland. Between the Kerch and Taman peninsula lies the 3–13 km (2–9 mi) wide Kerch Strait, which connects ...

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The spoken language of the Crimean Tatars has existed since the 13th century, and consists of three main dialects: "Kypchak-Tatar" from the Crimean mountains, "Kypchak-Nogay" from the northern steppes, and the coastal "Crimea-Osman". The Chagatai language also served the Crimean Tatar as a Dachsprache. After Islamification, these people wrote with a Persian-Arab script. In 1876 different Turkish Crimean dialects were made into a uniform written language, with a preference given to the more southern dialect in order ...

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The Crimea borders the Kherson region from the North; the rest of the border is the Black Sea in the South and West and the Sea of Azov in the East. Its area is 26,100 square kilometres with a population of 2.0 million (2004-05-01). The capital is Simferopol. Crimea is connected to the Ukrainian mainland by the 5–7 kilometre (3–4 mile) wide Isthmus of Perekop. At the eastern tip is the Kerch Peninsula, which is directly opposite the Taman Peninsula on the Russian mainland. Between the Kerch and Taman peninsula lies the 3–13 km (2–9 mi) wide Kerch Strait, which connects ...

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