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A resolute Crimean Tatar activist works to raise awareness of her people’s history, rights, and future, amplifying their ongoing struggle for justice and international recognition.

A Seditious and Sinister Tribe: The Crimean Tatars and their Khanate by Donald Rayfield, Reaktion Books £30/$40, 360 pages Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of ‘The Romanovs’ and ‘Stalin ...

Among them was Dzhemilev, who settled in Bakhchisaray, the former capital of the Crimean Khanate which ruled the peninsula before Imperial Russia annexed it in 1783. He continued fighting for Crimean ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by asserting the existence of a singular “Russian world” that needs protection and ...

In 1784, a year after he had successfully managed the annexation of what had been the Crimean Khanate, Potemkin fortified and populated a recently opened port that he renamed Sevastopol.

The Crimean Khanate was essentially the last fragment of the once all-powerful empire of Genghis Khan and was ruled by his descendants.

Before that, it was connected via the Crimean Khanate (until 1783) and the Tsarist Empire’s Taurida Governorate (1802–1917) to the territory of today’s southern Ukrainian mainland.

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.

Russian shelling hits Ukrainian church in Kherson that held the remains of Catherine the Great advisor Prince Grigory Potemkin until last year.