In the 18th century, the Crimean peninsula was transferred from the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire. We explain this complicated process in 9 simple steps. The Crimean Khanate was once a part ...

The local Crimean Tatar community provided the building. Apart from its permanent exhibits, La Richesse employs eight people to research and document the history of the Crimean Khanate.

The Crimean crisis is not just about Russia’s relationship with the West. It is also very much about Islam’s role in Russia. Moscow's success in Crimea won't just depend upon economics or ...

The Crimean Khanate became a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, but also a power in its own right, claiming territory in what is today Russia's Caspian-Volga region. Crimea ...

The complex was built as the main residence for the monarchs of the Crimean Khanate—the state of the Crimean Tatar people—and was the political, religious, and cultural center of the Crimean ...

The Crimean Khanate was a feudal state formation that appeared on Crimea’s territory after the dissolution of the Golden Horde and existed from 1441 to 1783.

Palaces and ports The quasi-independent Crimean Khanate was one of the most powerful and wealthy states in Eastern Europe, with splendid palaces and thriving port cities.

Crimean Tatars are a Turkic group of Sunni Muslims who were forcibly deported in 1944; many, like this family near Bakhchysaray, returned to their homeland after the fall of the Soviet Union.

The mid-19th-century Crimean War, and the Nazi seizure of Crimea in 1942, similarly humiliated Russia. History matters to Putin, and pride matters to Russians.

Every year on 26 June, the Day of the Crimean Tatar Flag is celebrated in Ukraine. This is a blue flag with a yellow coat of arms - taraq tamga, which is more than 100 years old. It symbolises the ...

Turkey hasn’t had direct control over Crimea since 1783, when the Crimean Khanate, a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, was annexed by Catherine the Great. But because of cultural ties to the region ...