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- Crimean Tatars
- Geographic regions of Ukraine
- Peninsulas of Europe
- Turkic toponyms
A290 highway (Russia)
The A290, before 2018 also known as M25, is a federal road in Russia that runs east–west along the northeast shore of the Black Sea from Novorossiysk to Port Kavkaz, and, via the Crimean Bridge, to Kerch in Crimea.
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Abulfeda
Ismāʿīl bin ʿAlī bin Maḥmūd bin Muḥammad bin ʿUmar bin Shāhanshāh bin Ayyūb bin Shādī bin Marwān (إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود بن محمد بن عمر بن شاهنشاه بن أيوب بن شادي بن مروان), better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda (أبو الفداء; November 127327 October 1331), was a Mamluk-era Kurdish geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local governor of Hama.
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist.
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Ai-Petri
Ai-Petri is a peak in the Crimean Mountains.
Al Jazeera Media Network
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; The Peninsula) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered at Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar.
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.
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Alma (Crimea)
The Alma is a small river in Crimea that flows from the Crimean Mountains in a broadly west-north-west direction to the Black Sea.
Alupka
Alupka (Ukrainian and Russian:; Alupka; Ἀλώπηξ, Alòpex) is a resort city located in the Crimean peninsula, a territory of Ukraine currently annexed by Russian Federation (see 2014 Crimean crisis).
Alushta
Alushta (Ukrainian and Russian:; Aluşta) is a city of regional significance on the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula which is within the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a region internationally recognised as territory of Ukraine, but occupied by the Russian Federation and incorporated as the Republic of Crimea.
Anapa
Anapa (Анапа) is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the northern coast of the Black Sea near the Sea of Azov.
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Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it.
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Annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire
The territory of the Crimean Khanate was annexed by the Russian Empire on.
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Annual Review of Entomology
The Annual Review of Entomology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes review articles about entomology, the study of insects.
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Annual Reviews (publisher)
Annual Reviews is an independent, non-profit academic publishing company based in San Mateo, California.
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Aqtas Lake
Aqtas Lake or Aktashskoye (Aqtaş gölü, Акта́шское о́зеро) is a drying salt lake at the Kerch peninsula in the Lenine Raion, Crimea.
Arabat Spit
The Arabat Spit (Арабатська коса; Арабатская коса; Arabat beli) or Arabat Arrow is a barrier spit that separates the large, shallow, salty Syvash lagoons from the Sea of Azov.
Armenians
Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.
Armiansk
Armiansk (Армянськ; Armyansk; Արմյանսկ; Ermeni Bazar) is a city of regional significance in the northern Crimean peninsula.
Artek (camp)
Artek (Арте́к) is an international children's center (a former Young Pioneer camp) on the Black Sea in the town of Gurzuf located on the Crimean Peninsula, near Ayu-Dag.
Artemis
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Artemis (Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity.
Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Autonomous Republic of Crimea
The Autonomous Republic of Crimea is an administrative division of Ukraine encompassing most of Crimea that was unilaterally annexed by Russia in 2014.
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Ayu-Dag
Ayu-Dag (Ayuv Dağ, Аю-Даг, Аю-Даг, Αγια (Aya - "Holy")) is a summit of Crimea.
Azov
Azov (Азов), previously known as Azak (Turki/Kypchak), is a town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, situated on the Don River just from the Sea of Azov, which derives its name from the town.
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Bakhchysarai
Bakhchysarai (Бахчисарай;; Bakhchisaray; Bahçesaray) is a city in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine. Crimea and Bakhchysarai are Crimean Tatars.
Bakhchysarai Palace
The Khan's Palace (Hansaray; Han Sarayı) or Hansaray is located in the town of Bakhchysarai, Crimea.
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Balaklava
Balaklava (Ukrainian and) is a settlement on the Crimean Peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol.
Balkans
The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. Crimea and Balkans are peninsulas of Europe.
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
Bark beetle
A bark beetle is the common name for the subfamily of beetles Scolytinae.
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.
Belarusians
Belarusians (biełarusy) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Belarus.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Білгород-Дністровський,; Cetatea Albă; Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy), historically known as Aq Kirmān (Akkerman) or by other names, is a port city in Odesa Oblast, southwestern Ukraine.
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Bilohirsk
Bilohirsk (until 1944 – Karasubazar, Білогірськ; translit, Qarasuvbazar/Къарасувбазар) is a city and the administrative centre of Bilohirsk Raion, one of the raions (districts) of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which is recognised by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine, but is occupied by Russia.
Bilohirsk Raion
Bilohirsk Raion is one of the 25 regions of Crimea, currently occupied by Russian Federation.
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Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Black Sea Fleet
The Black Sea Fleet (Chernomorskiy flot) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
Bosporan Kingdom
The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Basileía tou Kimmerikou Bospórou; Regnum Bospori), was an ancient Greco-Scythian state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus, centered in the present-day Strait of Kerch.
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Brian Glyn Williams
Brian Glyn Williams is a professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth who worked for the CIA.
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Business Insider
Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.
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California Agriculture
California Agriculture is a quarterly peer-reviewed, scientific journal reporting news and research on agricultural, natural, and human resources that is published by the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Cape Aya
Cape Aya (Ayya; Мис Айя; Мыс Айя) is a rocky promontory jutting out into the Black Sea southeast of Balaklava.
Cape Fiolent
Cape Fiolent (Felenk Burun; Фіолент; Фиолент; Parthenium), also historically called Cape Fiolente, is a cape and nature reserve (zakaznik) located in southern Sevastopol, a city within Crimea that is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine but currently occupied by Russia since 2014.
Cape Fonar
Cape Fonar (Мыс Фонарь, Мис Фонар, Fener, Фенер, Παρθένιον) is the easternmost point of the Crimean peninsula.
Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea.
Catherine the Great
Catherine II (born Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.
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Caucasus
The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.
Central Bank of Russia
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation, which brands itself as Bank of Russia (Банк России) and is also commonly referred to in English as the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), is the central bank of the Russian Federation.
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Cherson (theme)
The Theme of Cherson (θέμα Χερσῶνος, thema Chersōnos), originally and formally called the Klimata (Greek: τὰ Κλίματα), was a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) located in the southern Crimea, headquartered at Cherson.
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Chersonesus
Chersonesus, contracted in medieval Greek to Cherson (Χερσών), was an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula.
Chersonesus Cathedral
The Saint Vladimir Cathedral (Владимирский собор; Володимирський собор) is a Neo-Byzantine Russian Orthodox cathedral on the site of Chersonesos Taurica on the outskirts of Sevastopol, on the Crimean Peninsula.
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Chonhar Strait
The Chonhar Strait or Chongar Strait (Чонгарська протока; Чонгарский пролив; Çonğar boğazı) is a short, shallow, narrow strait in Ukraine, separating the eastern and western portions of the Syvash, the shallow lagoon system separating Crimea from the mainland east of the Isthmus of Perekop.
Chorna (river)
The Chorna, Chyornaya or Chorhun (Chorna,, Chyornaya), which translates from the Ukrainian and Russian as "Black River", is a small river in southern Crimea.
Chornomorske
Chornomorske or Chernomorskoye (Чорномо́рське; Черномо́рское; Aqmeçit, Καλός Λιμήν) is an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Chornomorske Raion in Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) and occupied by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.
Chornomorske Raion
Chornomorske Raion (Чорноморський район, Черноморский район, Aqmeçit rayonı) is a raion (district) within boundaries of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which is the southernmost subdivision of Ukraine, but since 2014 occupied and administered by the Russian Federation.
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Christianization of Kievan Rus'
The Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages.
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Chufut-Kale
Chufut-Kale (italic; Russian and Ukrainian: Чуфут-Кале - Chufut-Kale; Karaim: Кала - קלעה - Kala) is a medieval city-fortress in the Crimean Mountains that now lies in ruins.
Cimmerians
The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia.
Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
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Client state
In the field of international relations, a client state, is a state that is economically, politically, and militarily subordinated to a more powerful controlling state.
Continental climate
Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm to hot summers and cold winters).
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Crimea during the Russian Civil War
Crimea in the five years after the Russian Revolution had a large number of governments culminating in being a stronghold of anti-Communist forces and the place on Russian soil where they made their last stand.
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Crimea Germans
The Crimea Germans (Krimdeutsche, krymskiye nemtsy) were ethnic German settlers who were invited to settle in the Crimea as part of the Ostsiedlung ("East Settlement").
Crimea in the Roman era
The Crimean Peninsula (at the time known as Taurica) was under partial control of the Roman Empire during the period of 47 BC to c. 340 AD.
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Crimea in the Soviet Union
During the existence of the Soviet Union, different governments existed within the Crimean Peninsula.
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Crimea Railway
The Crimea Railway (Krimskaya Zheleznaya Doroga) is a railway located in Crimea, providing passenger and freight services to Sevastopol and the Republic of Crimea.
Crimean Bridge
The Crimean Bridge (Krymskiy most,; Krymskyi mist), also called Kerch Strait Bridge or Kerch Bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges, one for a four-lane road and one for a double-track railway, spanning the Kerch Strait between the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai in Russia and the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea.
Crimean Bulgarians
The Crimean Bulgarians (кримски българи, krimski balgari) are a historical ethnic Bulgarian minority in Crimea, a peninsula in Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea.
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Crimean campaign
The Crimean campaign was conducted by the Axis as part of Operation Barbarossa during World War II.
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Crimean Gothic
Crimean Gothic was a Germanic, probably East Germanic, language spoken by the Crimean Goths in some isolated locations in Crimea until the late 18th century.
Crimean Karaites
The Crimean Karaites or Krymkaraylar (Crimean Karaim: Кърымкъарайлар, Qrımqaraylar, singular къарай, qaray; Trakai dialect: karajlar, singular karaj; קראי מזרח אירופה; Qaraylar), also known as Karaims and Qarays, are an ethnicity of Turkic-speaking adherents of Karaite Judaism in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the territory of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Crimea.
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Crimean Khanate
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 existing from 1441–1783, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde. Crimea and Crimean Khanate are Crimean Tatars.
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Crimean legends
The interest in Crimean legends started at the end of the 19th century.
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Crimean Mountains
The Crimean Mountains or Yayla Mountains /jaɪːlə/, /jeɪːlæ/ are a range of mountains running parallel to the south-eastern coast of Crimea, between about from the sea.
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Crimean Premier League
The KFS Premier-Liga (Премьер-лига КФС) or simply Crimean Premier League is a professional association football league in Crimea organized by the Crimean Football Union (Krymsky Futbolny Soyuz) and devised by Russia after UEFA refused to allow Crimean clubs to switch to the Russian leagues in the wake of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.
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Crimean Regional Government
The Crimean Regional Government (Крымское краевое правительство Krymskoe kraevoe pravitel'stvo) refers to two successive short-lived regimes in the Crimean Peninsula during 1918 and 1919.
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Crimean Submediterranean forest complex
The Crimean Submediterranean forest complex is an ecoregion on the Black Sea coast of Russia and Ukraine.
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Crimean Tatar language
Crimean Tatar, also called Crimean, is a moribund Kipchak Turkic language spoken in Crimea and the Crimean Tatar diasporas of Uzbekistan, Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria, as well as small communities in the United States and Canada.
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Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatars or Crimeans are a Turkic ethnic group and nation native to Crimea.
Crimean Trolleybus
Crimean Trolleybus Line (Krymsky trolleybus; Krymskyi troleibus; Qırım trolleybusı) in Crimea is the longest trolleybus line in the world.
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Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.
Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe
Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe were the slave raids, for over three centuries, conducted by the military of the Crimean Khanate and the Nogai Horde primarily in lands controlled by Russia and Poland-Lithuania as well as other territories, often under the sponsorship of the Ottoman Empire, which provided slaves for the Crimean slave trade.
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Crop
A crop is a plant that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.
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Cruise ship
Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing.
Cuesta
A cuesta (slope) is a hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side, and a steep slope on the other.
Dacha
A dacha (Belarusian, Ukrainian and a) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of post-Soviet countries, including Russia.
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Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Crimea
The Declaration of Independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol was a joint resolution adopted on March 11, 2014 by the Supreme Council of Crimea and the Sevastopol City Council that proclaimed the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol a sovereign state — the Republic of Crimea.
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Demographics of Crimea
As of January 2021, the estimated total population of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol was at 2,416,856 (Republic of Crimea: 1,903,707, Sevastopol: 513,149).
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Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
The deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Qırımtatar halqınıñ sürgünligi, Cyrillic: Къырымтатар халкъынынъ сюргюнлиги) or the Sürgünlik ('exile') was the ethnic cleansing and the cultural genocide of at least 191,044 Crimean Tatars which was carried out by Soviet Union authorities from 18 to 20 May 1944, supervised by Lavrentiy Beria, chief of Soviet state security and the secret police, and ordered by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Crimea and deportation of the Crimean Tatars are Crimean Tatars.
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Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
The Kakhovka Dam was breached in the early hours of 6 June 2023, causing extensive flooding along the lower Dnieper river, also called the Dnipro, in Kherson Oblast.
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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Dnieper
The Dnieper, also called Dnepr or Dnipro, is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.
Dnieper–Bug estuary
The Dnieper–Bug estuary (Dniprovsko-Buzkyi lyman), also called the Dniprovska Gulf, is an open estuary, or liman, of two rivers: the Dnieper and the Southern Bug (also called the Boh River).
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Dniester
The Dniester is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe.
Donuzlav
Lake Donuzlav (Russian and Ukrainian: Донузлав), also referred to as Donuzlav Bay, is the deepest lakeOliferov, A.M..
Doping in Russia
Systematic doping of Russian athletes has resulted in 50 Olympic medals stripped from Russia (and Russian associated teams), four times the number of the next highest, and more than 30% of the global total.
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Dulber Palace
The Dulber Palace (Дворец Дюльбер) is a Moorish Revival palace designed by Nikolay Krasnov in Koreiz, near Yalta in Crimea.
Dzerkalo Tyzhnia
Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Дзеркало тижня), usually referred to in English as the Mirror of the week, is a Ukrainian online newspaper; it was one of Ukraine's most influential analytical weekly-publisher newspapers, founded in 1994.
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Dzhankoi
Dzhankoi or Jankoy is a city of regional significance in the northern part of Crimea, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, but since 2014 occupied by Russia.
Dzhankoi Raion
Dzhankoi Raion is one of the 25 regions of Crimea, currently subject to a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
Early modern period
The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
Eastern Mediterranean
Eastern Mediterranean is a loose definition of the eastern approximate half, or third, of the Mediterranean Sea, often defined as the countries around the Levantine Sea.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Economic sanctions
Economic sanctions are commercial and financial penalties applied by states or institutions against states, groups, or individuals.
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Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician.
Elsevier
Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.
Empire of Trebizond
The Empire of Trebizond or the Trapezuntine Empire was a successor state of the Byzantine Empire that existed during the 13th through to the 15th century.
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Entomopathogenic fungus
An entomopathogenic fungus is a fungus that can kill or seriously disable insects.
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Eparchy
Eparchy (ἐπαρχία eparchía "overlordship") is an ecclesiastical unit in Eastern Christianity that is equivalent to a diocese in Western Christianity.
Essential oil
An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (easily evaporated at normal temperatures) chemical compounds from plants.
Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.
Eugenios Voulgaris
Eugenios Voulgaris or Boulgaris (Εὐγένιος Βούλγαρης; Евгений Вулгарский, Евгений Вулгар; 1716–1806) was a Greek Orthodox cleric, author, educator, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher.
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Eurasian nomads
The Eurasian nomads were groups of nomadic peoples living throughout the Eurasian Steppe, who are largely known from frontier historical sources from Europe and Asia.
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Euromaidan
Euromaidan (translit), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv.
Euronews
Euronews (stylised in lowercase) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France.
European route E105
E105 is part of the International E-road network, which is a series of main roads in Europe.
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European route E97
European route E 97 is an A-class European Route in Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
Eurovision Song Contest 2016
The Eurovision Song Contest 2016 was the 61st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Eurygaster integriceps
Eurygaster integriceps is a species of shield bug in the family Scutelleridae, commonly known as the sunn pest or corn bug.
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Eurygaster maura
Eurygaster maura, also known as tortoise bug, is a species of true bugs or shield-backed bugs belonging to the family Scutelleridae.
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Federal State Statistics Service (Russia)
The Federal State Statistics Service (translit, abbreviated as Rosstat) is the governmental statistics agency in Russia.
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Feodosia
Feodosia (Феодосія, Теодосія, Feodosiia, Teodosiia; Феодосия, Feodosiya), also called in English Theodosia (from), is a city on the Crimean coast of the Black Sea.
Flag of Crimea
The flag of Crimea (Flag Kryma; Prapor Krymu; Qırım bayrağı / Къырым байрагъы) is the flag of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine and the Republic of Crimea controlled by Russia.
Foros, Crimea
Foros (Форос; Форо́с, Foros, Phàros, Φάρος) is a resort town (an urban-type settlement, legally) in Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory of Ukraine and occupied by Russia under the name of ″Republic of Crimea″.
Fruit tree
A fruit tree is a tree which bears fruit that is consumed or used by animals and humans — all trees that are flowering plants produce fruit, which are the ripened ovaries of flowers containing one or more seeds.
Gaspra
Gaspra (Гаспра; Гаспра; script; from Greek ἄσπρα, 'white'), officially transliterated Haspra, is a spa town, an urban-type settlement in Yalta Municipality in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
Gedik Ahmed Pasha
Gedik Ahmed Pasha (died 18 November 1482) was an Ottoman statesman and admiral who served as Grand Vizier and Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy) during the reigns of sultans Mehmed II and Bayezid II.
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Genoese Gazaria
Gazaria (also Cassaria, Cacsarea, and Gasaria) was the name given to the colonial possessions of the Republic of Genoa in Crimea and around the Black Sea coasts in the territories of the modern regions of Russia, Ukraine and Romania, from the mid-13th century to the late 15th century.
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Genoese–Mongol Wars
The Genoese–Mongol Wars were a series of conflicts fought between the Republic of Genoa, the Mongol Empire and its successor states, most notedly the Golden Horde and Crimean Khanate.
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Georgiy Starostin
Georgiy Sergeevich "George" Starostin (Гео́ргий Серге́евич Ста́ростин; born 4 July 1976) is a Russian linguist.
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German occupation of Crimea during World War II
During World War II, the Crimean Peninsula was subject to military administration by Nazi Germany following the success of the Crimean campaign.
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Golden Horde
The Golden Horde, self-designated as Ulug Ulus (in Kipchak Turkic), was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire.
Goods
In economics, goods are items that satisfy human wantsQuotation from Murray Milgate, 2008, "Goods and Commodities".
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Government budget balance
The government budget balance, also referred to as the general government balance, public budget balance, or public fiscal balance, is the difference between government revenues and spending.
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Government of Ukraine
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (translit; shortened to CabMin), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine (Уряд України, Uriad Ukrainy), is the highest body of state executive power in Ukraine.
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Grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption.
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Grape
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.
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Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE;, BSE) is the largest Soviet Russian-language encyclopedia, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990.
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Greek Crimea
Greek Crimea concerns the ancient Greek settlements on the Crimean Peninsula.
Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
Gurzuf
Gurzuf or Hurzuf (Гурзуф, Гурзу́ф, Gurzuf, Γορζουβίται) is a resort-town (urban-type settlement) in Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.
Henichesk Raion
Henichesk Raion (Генічеський район) is one of the five administrative raions (districts) of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Crimea and Henichesk Raion are Crimean Tatars.
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Henichesk Strait
The Henichesk Strait (alternatively Genichesk Strait; Генічеська протока,, Генический пролив) is a narrow strait which connects the Syvash (the shallow lagoon system separating the Crimea from the rest of Ukraine east of the Isthmus of Perekop) with the Sea of Azov.
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Heracles Peninsula
Heracles Peninsula (Гераклійський півострів, Гераклейский полуостров) is a triangular headland in Black Sea at the southwestern portion of Crimea.
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Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
History of Crimea
The recorded history of the Crimean Peninsula, historically known as Tauris, Taurica (Ταυρική or Ταυρικά), and the Tauric Chersonese (Χερσόνησος Ταυρική, "Tauric Peninsula"), begins around the 5th century BCE when several Greek colonies were established along its coast, the most important of which was Chersonesos near modern day Sevastopol, with Scythians and Tauri in the hinterland to the north.
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History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union
The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves.
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History of the Jews in Russia
The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years.
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Holitsynske gas field
The Holitsynske gas field natural gas field located on the continental shelf of the Black Sea.
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Inkerman
Inkerman (Инкерман, Інкерман, İnkerman) is a city in the Crimean peninsula.
International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences
The International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences (IAPPS) has the goal of gathering the results of plant protection research worldwide and making them globally available to science and practice.
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International Transport Workers' Federation
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896.
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Iphigenia
In Greek mythology, Iphigenia (Ἰφιγένεια) was a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Mycenae.
Ironstone
Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical replacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron ore compound from which iron (Fe) can be smelted commercially.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.
Isthmus of Perekop
The Isthmus of Perekop, literally Isthmus of the Trench (Перекопський перешийок.; transliteration: Perekops'kyi pereshyiok; Перекопский перешеек; transliteration: Perekopskiy peresheek, Or boynu, Orkapı;; transliteration: Taphros), is the narrow, wide strip of land that connects the Crimean Peninsula to the mainland of Ukraine.
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Italians of Crimea
Crimean Italians (italiani di Crimea; Italiytsi Krymu; Ital'yantsy v Krymu) are an ethnic minority residing in Crimea, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Crimea during the Italian diaspora, the largest nucleus of which is found in the city of Kerch.
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Ivan Aivazovsky
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Иван Константинович Айвазовский) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art.
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Jamala
Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova (born 27 August 1983), known professionally as Jamala, is a Ukrainian singer.
Jamestown Foundation
The Jamestown Foundation is a Washington, D.C.-based conservative defense policy think tank.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
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John Krueger
John Richard Krueger (March 14, 1927 – February 7, 2018) was a professor at Indiana University, specialized in studies of Chuvash and Yakut, and Mongolian languages.
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
Kalamita Bay
Kalamita Bay (Каламитский залив, Каламітська затока, Kalamita körfezi, Каламита корьфези), also known as Gulf of Kalamita, is a bay and a gulf in the Black Sea south of Yevpatoria, Crimea.
Karkinit Bay
Karkinit, Karkinitski, Carcinites, or Karkinitsky Bay (Каркінітська затока, Karkinits'ka zatoka; Каркинитский залив, Karkinitskiy zaliv, Karkinit körfezi) is a bay of the Black Sea that separates the northwestern Crimean Peninsula from the mainland Ukraine.
KaZantip
KaZantip, also known simply as "Z", was an electronic dance music festival that took place every year from 1992 to 2013 on the Crimean Peninsula; from 2002 to 2013, it was held in the village of Popivka, near Yevpatoria.
Kerch
Kerch, also known as Keriç or Kerich, is a city of regional significance on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of Crimea.
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Kerch Peninsula
The Kerch Peninsula is a major and prominent geographic peninsula located at the eastern end of the Crimean Peninsula.
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Kerch Strait
The Kerch Strait is a strait in Eastern Europe.
Kerch Strait ferry line
The Kerch Strait ferry line (Керченская паромная переправа (also, переправа «Крым — Кавказ»), Керченська поромна переправа) was a ferry connection across the Strait of Kerch that connected the Crimean Peninsula and Krasnodar Krai.
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Kharkiv Pact
The Agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine, widely referred to as the Kharkiv Pact (Харківський пакт) or Kharkov Accords (Харьковские соглашения), was a treaty between Ukraine and Russia whereby the Russian lease on naval facilities in Crimea was extended beyond 2017 until 2042, with an additional five-year renewal option in exchange for a multiyear discounted contract to provide Ukraine with Russian natural gas.
Kherson
Kherson (Ukrainian and) is a port city in Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast.
Kherson Oblast
Kherson Oblast (translit,; Херсонская область), also known as Khersonshchyna (label), is an oblast (province) in southern Ukraine.
Kievan Rus'
Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.
Kimmerikon
Kimmerikón (Greek Κιμμερικόν, Cimmericum) was an ancient Greek city in Crimea, on the southern shore of the Kerch Peninsula, at the western slope of Opuk mountain, roughly 40 kilometres southwest of modern Kerch.
Kingdom of Pontus
Pontus (Πόντος) was a Hellenistic kingdom centered in the historical region of Pontus in modern-day Turkey, and ruled by the Mithridatic dynasty of Persian origin, which may have been directly related to Darius the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty.
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Koine Greek
Koine Greek (Koine the common dialect), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire.
Koktebel
Koktebel (Ukrainian and Коктебéль, Köktöbel, in 1945–1992 known as Planerskoye, Планерское) is an urban-type settlement and one of the most popular resort townlets in southeastern Crimea.
Koreiz
Koreiz is an urban-type settlement lying south-west of Yalta in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.
Krasnodar Krai
Krasnodar Krai (Krasnodarskiy kray) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and administratively a part of the Southern Federal District.
Krasnoperekopsk
Krasnoperekopsk or Yany Kapu (Яни Капу, script) is a city in Crimea.
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Krymchaks
The Krymchaks (Krymchak: кърымчахлар,, кърымчах) are Jewish ethno-religious communities of Crimea derived from Turkic-speaking adherents of Rabbinic Judaism.
Kul-Oba
Kul-Oba (Kül Oba; meaning "hill of ash" in Crimean Tatar) is an ancient archaeological site, a Scythian burial tumulus (kurgan), located near Kerch in eastern Crimea, on the right side of the M25 road to Feodosiya.
Kurgan
A kurgan is a type of tumulus constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons and horses.
Lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses.
Liman (landform)
A liman (liman) is an enlarged estuary formed as a lagoon at the wide mouth of one or several rivers, where flow is nearly fully or partially constrained by a mouth bar of sediments (peresyp), as in the Dniester Liman or the Razelm liman.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.
List of cities in Crimea
--> --> --> There are 18 populated places in the Crimean peninsula that are recognized as having city status.
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Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War)
The "little green men" (зелёные человечки; зелені чоловічки) were Russian soldiers who were masked and wore unmarked uniforms upon the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014.
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Livadia Palace
Livadia Palace (Ливадийский дворец, Лівадійський палац) is a former summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family in Livadiya, Crimea.
Maeotian Swamp
The Maeotian Swamp or Maeotian Marshes (ἡ Μαιῶτις λίμνη, hē Maiōtis límnē, literally Maeotian Lake; Palus Maeotis) was a name applied in antiquity variously to the swamps at the mouth of the Tanais River in Scythia (the modern Don in southern Russia) and to the entire Sea of Azov which it forms there.
Mahmud Qırımlı
Mahmud Qırımlı (also known as Mahmud Qırımiy; Махмуд Киримли, Mahmud Kırımlı) was a late twelfth- to early thirteenth-century Crimean Tatar poet.
Mangup
Mangup (Мангуп, Manhup, Mangup) also known as Mangup Kale (kale means "fortress" in Turkish) is a historic fortress in Crimea, located on a plateau about 13 kilometres east of Sevastopol (ancient Chersonesus).
Massandra
Massandra or Masandra (Massandra; Массандра; Масандра) is an urban-type settlement in the Yalta Municipality in Crimea.
Mastercard
Mastercard Inc. (stylized as MasterCard from 1979 to 2016, mastercard from 2016 to 2019) is an American multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York.
Maximilian Voloshin
Maximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin (Максимилиа́н Алекса́ндрович Кирие́нко-Воло́шин; May 28, 1877 – August 11, 1932), commonly known as Max Voloshin, was a Russian poet.
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Mediterranean Basin
In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin, also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea, is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and warm to hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation.
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Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).
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Melitopol
Melitopol is a city and municipality in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, southeastern Ukraine.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (translit) is the ministry of the Ukrainian government that oversees the foreign relations of Ukraine.
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Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories
The Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories (Ministerstvo z pytanʹ reintehratsiyi tymchasovo okupovanykh terytoriy Ukrayiny) is a government ministry in Ukraine officially established on 20 April 2016, Ukrayinska Pravda (20 April 2016) to manage occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea regions affected by the Russian military intervention of 2014.
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Mir (payment system)
Mir (Мир) is a Russian card payment system for electronic fund transfers established by the Central Bank of Russia under a law adopted on 1 May 2017.
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Monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).
Mongolian language
Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau.
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Mongols
The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.
Mount Mithridat
Mount Mithridat is a large hill located in the center of Kerch, a city on the eastern Kerch Peninsula of Crimea.
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Murmansk
Murmansk (Мурманск; Мурман ланнҍ; Muurman and Murmánska) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia.
Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
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Naval museum complex Balaklava
Naval museum complex Balaklava (Морський музейний комплекс "Балаклава", Russian: Музей холодной войны, "The Cold War Museum", designation K-825) is an underground submarine base in Balaklava, Crimea (originally known as Object 825 GTS).
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NEWSru
NEWSru.com was a Russian independent online news site based in Moscow that was generally critical of the Russian government.
Nikitsky Botanical Garden
Nikita Botanical Garden (Никитский ботанический сад, Нікітський ботанічний сад) is one of the oldest botanical gardens in Europe.
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North Crimean Canal
The North Crimean Canal, formerly known as the North Crimean Canal of the Lenin's Komsomol of Ukraine in Soviet times, is a land improvement canal for irrigation and watering of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula.
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Novorossiysk
Novorossiysk (Новоросси́йск) is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
Novyi Svit
Novyi Svit or Novy Svet (Новий Світ; Но́вый Свет; Novıy Svet) is a resort and urban-type settlement in Sudak Municipality in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.
Ochakiv
Ochakiv, also known as Ochakov (Очаків,; Очаков; Özü; Oceacov or, archaically, Vozia), and Alektor (Ἀλέκτωρ in Greek), is a small city in Mykolaiv Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast (region) of southern Ukraine.
Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
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Odeske gas field
The Odeske gas field natural gas field located on the continental shelf of the Black Sea.
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Office Open XML file formats
The Office Open XML file formats are a set of file formats that can be used to represent electronic office documents.
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Offshore (hydrocarbons)
"Offshore", when used in relation to hydrocarbons, refers to operations undertaken at, or under the, sea in association with an oil, natural gas or condensate field that is under the seabed, or to activities carried out in relation to such a field.
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Omsk
Omsk (Омск) is the administrative center and largest city of Omsk Oblast, Russia.
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Onshore (hydrocarbons)
Onshore, when used in relation to hydrocarbons, refers to an oil, natural gas or condensate field that is under the land or to activities or operations carried out in relation to such a field.
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Or Qapi
Or Qapi Fortress is a ruined fort located near the settlement of Perekop on the Perekop isthmus connecting the Crimean peninsula to the Ukrainian mainland.
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Pantikapaion
Pantikapaion (Παντικάπαιον, from Scythian *Pantikapa 'fish-path'; Panticapaeum) was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of Crimea, which the Greeks called Taurica.
Parasitoid
In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host.
Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet
The Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet consists of three bilateral agreements between Russia and Ukraine signed on 28 May 1997 whereby the two countries established two independent national fleets, divided armaments and bases between them, and set forth conditions for basing of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea.
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Peninsula
A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most sides.
Pereiaslav Agreement
The Pereiaslav Agreement or Pereyaslav Agreement Britannica.
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Perekop
Perekop (Ukrainian & Russian: Перекоп) is a village located on the Perekop Isthmus connecting the Crimean peninsula to the Ukrainian mainland.
Pest (organism)
A pest is any organism harmful to humans or human concerns.
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Petroleum reservoir
A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.
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Phanagoria
Phanagoria (Phanagóreia; translit) was the largest ancient Greek city on the Taman peninsula, spread over two plateaus along the eastern shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus.
Planococcus (bug)
Planococcus is a genus of true bugs belonging to the family Pseudococcidae.
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Planococcus ficus
Planococcus ficus, commonly known as the vine mealybug, is a species of mealybug, belonging to the family Pseudococcidae, native to tropical and subtropical regions.
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Polish–Lithuanian union
The Polish–Lithuanian union was a relationship created by a series of acts and alliances between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that lasted for prolonged periods of time from 1385 and led to the creation of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, or the "Republic of the Two Nations", in 1569 and eventually to the creation of a unitary state in 1791.
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Political status of Crimea
The Crimean problem (Проблема Крыма; translit) or the Crimean question (Крымский вопрос; translit) is a dispute over the status of Crimea between Ukraine and Russia.
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Politics of Crimea
The politics of Crimea today is that of the Republic of Crimea on one hand, and that of the federal city of Sevastopol on the other, within the context of the largely unrecognised annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March 2014.
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Polybius
Polybius (Πολύβιος) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.
Pontic Olbia
Pontic Olbia (Ὀλβία Ποντική; Olviia) or simply Olbia is an archaeological site of an ancient Greek city on the shore of the Southern Bug estuary (Hypanis or Ὕπανις) in Ukraine, near the village of Parutyne.
Pontic–Caspian steppe
The Pontic–Caspian Steppe is a steppe extending across Eastern Europe to Central Asia, formed by the Caspian and Pontic steppes.
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Porphyry (geology)
Porphyry is any of various granites or igneous rocks with coarse-grained crystals such as feldspar or quartz dispersed in a fine-grained silicate-rich, generally aphanitic matrix or groundmass.
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Prairie
Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.
President of Ukraine
The president of Ukraine (Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine.
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Principality of Moscow
The Principality of Moscow or Grand Duchy of Moscow (Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye), also known simply as Muscovy (from the Latin Moscovia), was a principality of the Late Middle Ages centered on Moscow.
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Principality of Theodoro
The Principality of Theodoro (Αὐθεντία πόλεως Θεοδωροῦς καὶ παραθαλασσίας), also known as Gothia (Γοτθία) or the Principality of Theodoro-Mangup, was a Greek principality in the southern part of Crimea, specifically on the foothills of the Crimean Mountains.
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Pyotr Wrangel
Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Пётр Николаевич Врангель,; Peter von Wrangel; 25 April 1928), also known by his nickname the Black Baron, was a Russian military officer of Baltic German origin in the Imperial Russian Army.
Qarabiy yayla
Qarabiy yayla (translit; translit) is a mountain range and botanical zakaznik (nature reserve) located in Crimea, a region internationally recognised as part of Ukraine but occupied by Russia since 2014.
RBK Group
The RBC Group, or RosBiznesConsulting, is a Russian media group headquartered in Moscow.
Republic of Crimea (1992–1995)
The Republic of Crimea was the interim name of a polity on the Crimean peninsula from the dissolution of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1992 to the abolition of the Crimean Constitution by the Ukrainian Parliament in 1995.
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Republic of Crimea (Russia)
The Republic of Crimea is a republic of Russia, comprising most of the Crimean Peninsula, but excluding Sevastopol.
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Republic of Genoa
The Republic of Genoa (Repúbrica de Zêna; Repubblica di Genova; Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast.
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Republic of Venice
The Republic of Venice, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice.
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Revolution of Dignity
The Revolution of Dignity (translit), also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests, when deadly clashes between protesters and state forces in the capital Kyiv culminated in the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, the return to the 2004 Constitution of Ukraine, and the outbreak of the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Riga
Riga is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States.
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Riviera
Riviera is an Italian word which means, ultimately derived from Latin rīpa, through Ligurian rivêa.
Roman-Kosh
Roman-Kosh is the highest peak of the Crimean Mountains.
Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia.
Route from the Varangians to the Greeks
The trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks was a medieval trade route that connected Scandinavia, Kievan Rus' and the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Rozdolne Raion
Rozdolne Raion (Роздольненський район, Раздольненский район, Aqşeyh rayonı) is a district (raion) within the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, but since 2014 occupied and incorporated by the Russian Federation as the Republic of Crimea.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
Russian Empire census
The Russian Empire census, formally the First general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897, was the first and only nation-wide census performed in the Russian Empire.
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Russian language in Ukraine
Russian is the most common first language in the Donbas and Crimea regions of Ukraine and the city of Kharkiv, and the predominant language in large cities in the eastern and southern portions of the country.
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Russian occupation of Crimea
On 27 February 2014, unmarked Russian soldiers were deployed to the Crimean Peninsula in order to wrest control of it from Ukraine, triggering the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.
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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..
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Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty
The Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation was an agreement between Ukraine and Russia, signed in 1997, which fixed the principle of strategic partnership, the recognition of the inviolability of existing borders, and respect for territorial integrity and mutual commitment not to use its territory to harm the security of each other.
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Russians
Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.
Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)
The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 was a major armed conflict that saw Russian arms largely victorious against the Ottoman Empire.
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Russo-Ukrainian War
The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014.
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Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Russia.
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Salhyr
The Salhyr or Salgir is the longest river of the Crimean Peninsula.
Salt pan (geology)
Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun.
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Sarych
Sarych (Са́рич; Са́рыч; Sarıç) is a headland located on the shore of the Black Sea at the southern extremity of the Crimean Peninsula.
SC Tavriya Simferopol
Sports Club Tavriya (Спортивний клуб "Таврія") was a Ukrainian football club from Simferopol.
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Scelioninae
Scelioninae is a subfamily of wasps in the family Scelionidae.
Scythia
Scythia (Scythian: Skulatā; Old Persian: Skudra; Ancient Greek: Skuthia; Latin: Scythia) or Scythica (Ancient Greek: Skuthikē; Latin: Scythica), also known as Pontic Scythia, was a kingdom created by the Scythians during the 6th to 3rd centuries BC in the Pontic–Caspian steppe.
Scythians
The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.
Sea of Azov
The Sea of Azov is an inland shelf sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about) Strait of Kerch, and sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea.
Sevastopol
Sevastopol, sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea.
Sevastopol Bay
Sevastopol Bay (Севастопольська бухта; Севастопольская бухта) is a city harbor that includes a series of smaller bays carved out its shores.
Shchaslyvtseve
Shchaslyvtseve (Щасливцеве) is a village in southern Ukraine.
Shtormove gas field
The Shtormove gas field natural gas field located on the continental shelf of the Black Sea.
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Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)
The Siege of Sevastopol, also known as the Defence of Sevastopol (Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle of Sevastopol (Bătălia de la Sevastopol), was a military engagement that took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War.
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Simferopol
Simferopol, also known as Aqmescit, is the second-largest city on the Crimean Peninsula.
Simferopol International Airport
Simferopol International Airport is an airport located in Simferopol, de facto the capital of the Republic of Crimea.
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Slave market
A slave market is a place where slaves are bought and sold.
Sochi
Sochi (a, from Шъуача – seaside) is the largest resort city in Russia.
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Sonnet
The term sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto (from the Latin word sonus). It refers to a fixed verse poetic form, traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme.
Southern Coast (Crimea)
The Southern Coast (Yalı Boyu; translit; translit), also referred to as the Crimean Riviera, is a geographic region located in southern Crimea, a region internationally recognised as part of Ukraine but currently controlled by Russia.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
St. Vladimir's Cathedral, Sevastopol
St.
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Staryi Krym
Staryi Krym (Старий Крим; italic; Старый Крым; in all four languages) is a small historical city and former bishopric in Kirovske (Isliam-Terek) Raion of Crimea, Ukraine.
Strabo
StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.
Strilkove
Strilkove (Стрілкове; Стрелковое; Çoqraq) is a Ukrainian village in Henichesk raion of Kherson Oblast.
Subbotin oil field
The Subbotin oil field (Russian: месторождение Субботина) is an oil and gas field located on the continental shelf of the Black Sea near Crimea.
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Subtropics
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.
Sudak
Sudak (Ukrainian and Russian:; Sudaq; Σουγδαία; sometimes spelled Sudac or Sudagh) is a city, multiple former Eastern Orthodox bishopric and double Latin Catholic titular see.
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Sunn pest
Sunn pests are grain insect pests belonging to several genera of the 'shield bug' family Scutelleridae, with the species Eurygaster integriceps being the most economically important.
Swallow's Nest
The Swallow's Nest (Lastivchýne hnizdó; Lástochkino gnezdó) is a decorative castle located at Gaspra, a small spa town between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula.
Syvash
The Syvash or Sivash (Russian and Ukrainian: Сива́ш;, Cyrillic: Сываш, "dirt"), also known as the or (Gniloye More;, Hnyle More), is a large area of shallow lagoons on the west coast of the Sea of Azov.
Tachinidae
The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered.
Taman Bay
The Taman Bay (Russian: Таманский залив) is a shallow bay or gulf on the east coast of the Strait of Kerch shaped on the southern side by the Tuzla Spit and to the north by the Chushka Spit.
Taman Peninsula
The Taman Peninsula (p) is a peninsula in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, which borders the Sea of Azov to the north, the Kerch Strait to the west and the Black Sea to the south.
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Taman, Russia
Taman (Тамань) is a stanitsa (village) in the Temryuksky District of Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
Tanais
Tanais (Τάναϊς Tánaïs; Танаис) was an ancient Greek city in the Don river delta, called the Maeotian marshes in classical antiquity.
Tarkhankut Peninsula
The Tarkhankut Peninsula (Tarkhankutskyi pivostriv;; Тарханкутский полуостров) is the peninsula which constitutes the western extremity of Crimea into the Black Sea.
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TASS
The Russian News Agency TASS, or simply TASS, is a Russian state-owned news agency founded in 1904.
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Tatar language
Tatar (татар теле, tatar tele or татарча, tatarça) is a Turkic language spoken by the Volga Tatars mainly located in modern Tatarstan (European Russia), as well as Siberia and Crimea.
Tatar Legions
The Tatar Legions were auxiliary units of the Waffen-SS formed after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Tauri
The Tauri (Ταῦροι in Ancient Greek), or Taurians, also Scythotauri, Tauri Scythae, Tauroscythae (Pliny, H. N. 4.85) were an ancient people settled on the southern coast of the Crimea peninsula, inhabiting the Crimean Mountains in the 1st millennium BC and the narrow strip of land between the mountains and the Black Sea.
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Taurida Governorate
Taurida Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire.
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Taurida Oblast
Taurida Oblast (Tavricheskaya oblast) was an administrative-territorial unit (oblast) of the Russian Empire.
Tavrida Highway
The Tavrida Highway is a highway in Crimea, designated as A291 by the Russian administration.
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Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University
V.I. Vernadsky Taurida National University (TNU) (Таврійський національний університет імені В.І. Вернадського (ТНУ).) is a public university currently located in Kyiv.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Territorial dispute
A territorial dispute or boundary dispute is a disagreement over the possession or control of territories (land, water or airspace) between two or more political entities.
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The Cambridge Ancient History
The Cambridge Ancient History is a multi-volume work of ancient history from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, published by Cambridge University Press.
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The Crimean Sonnets
The Crimean Sonnets (Sonety krymskie) are a series of 18 Polish sonnets by Adam Mickiewicz, constituting an artistic telling of a journey through the Crimea.
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The Fountain of Bakhchisaray
The Fountain of Bakhchisaray («Бахчисарайский фонтан», Bakhchisaraiskiy fontan) is a poem by Alexander Pushkin, written during the years 1821 to 1823.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, sometimes shortened to Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon.
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The Holocaust in Russia
The Holocaust in Russia is the Nazi crimes during the occupation of Russia (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) by Nazi Germany.
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The Holocaust in Ukraine
The Holocaust in Ukraine was the systematic mass murder of Jews in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, the General Government, the Crimean General Government and some areas which were located to the East of Reichskommissariat Ukraine (all of those areas were under the military control of Nazi Germany), in the Transnistria Governorate and Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region (all of those areas were then part of Romania, with the latter three areas being re-annexed) and Carpathian Ruthenia (then part of Hungary) during World War II.
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Tmutarakan
Tmutarakan (Tmutarakán') was a medieval principality of Kievan Rus' and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, between the late 10th and 11th centuries.
Transfer of Crimea in the Soviet Union
In 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union transferred the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
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Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (Küçük Kaynarca Antlaşması; Кючук-Кайнарджийский мир), formerly often written Kuchuk-Kainarji, was a peace treaty signed on 21 July 1774, in Küçük Kaynarca (today Kaynardzha, Bulgaria) between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–74 with many concessions to Russia.
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Tsardom of Russia
The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Muscovy, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew by an average of per year. The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian conquest of Siberia, to the reign of Peter the Great, who took power in 1689 and transformed the tsardom into an empire.
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Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, Massachusetts, and in Talloires.
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Tumulus
A tumulus (tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
Turkic languages
The Turkic languages are a language family of more than 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and West Asia.
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Tyras
Tyras (Τύρας) was an ancient Greek city on the northern coast of the Black Sea.
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Uchan-su (river)
Uchan-su (Учан-Су, Уча́н-Су or Водопадная Vodopadnaya, Uçan Suv), is a river that flows in the South Coast of Crimea.
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Uchan-su (waterfall)
Uchan-su (Учан-Су, Uçan Suv), is a waterfall on the river Uchan-su on the southern slopes of the Crimean Mountains in Crimea.
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UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA; Union des associations européennes de football; Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football.
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Uezd
An uezd (also spelled uyezd; p), or povit in a Ukrainian context (повіт), or Kreis in Baltic-German context, was a type of administrative subdivision of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, the Russian SFSR, and the early Soviet Union, which was in use from the 13th century.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
Ukrainian Association of Football
The Ukrainian Football Association (Ukrayins'ka Asotsiatsiya Futbolu; UAF) is the governing body of football in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian football league system
The Ukrainian football league system has developed over the years.
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Ukrainian Independent Information Agency
The Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News (translit) is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian news agency.
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Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), commonly referred to by the exonym Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), is an Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP; Ukrainska Pravoslavna Tserkva — Kyivskyi Patriarkhat (UPTs-KP)) was an Orthodox church in Ukraine, in existence from 1992 to 2018.
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Ukrainian Railways
Ukrainian Railways or Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) (Укрзалізниця) is a state-owned joint-stock company administering railway infrastructure and rail transport in Ukraine; a monopoly that controls the vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country.
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Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.
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Ukrainians
Ukrainians (ukraintsi) are a civic nation and an ethnic group native to Ukraine.
Ukrainska Pravda
Ukrainska Pravda (lit) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum).
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262 was adopted on 27 March 2014 by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly in response to the Russian annexation of Crimea and entitled "territorial integrity of Ukraine".
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United Nations Secretariat
The United Nations Secretariat is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), The secretariat is the UN's executive arm.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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University of California
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California.
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Urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementtranslit, abbreviated: translit; translit, abbreviated: translit; translit; osiedle typu miejskiego; translit; așezare de tip urban/orășenesc.
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Valley of Ghosts (Crimea)
The Valley of Ghosts (Долина привидений, Долина привидів, Hayalet vadiysi) is a valley located in Crimea made up of naturally shaped rocks on the Southern Demirci mountain, located near Alushta city.
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Vasco da Gama Bridge
The Vasco da Gama Bridge (Ponte Vasco da Gama) is a cable-stayed bridge flanked by viaducts that spans the Tagus River in Parque das Nações in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.
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Vasily Radlov
Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff (Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ра́длов; in Berlin – 12 May 1918 in Petrograd) was a German-Russian linguist, ethnographer, and archaeologist, often considered to be the founder of Turkology, the scientific study of Turkic peoples.
Vera Rebrik
Vera Yuryevna Rebrik (Вера Юрьевна Ребрик; Віра Юріївна Ребрик; born 25 February 1989) is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw.
Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (born 9 July 1950) is a former Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014.
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Vilnius
Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.
Visa Inc.
Visa Inc. is an American multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Vladimir the Great
Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych (Volodiměr Svętoslavič; Christian name: Basil; 15 July 1015), given the epithet "the Great", was Prince of Novgorod from 970 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 until his death in 1015. The Eastern Orthodox Church canonised him as Saint Vladimir.
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Volgograd
Volgograd (p), formerly Tsaritsyn (label) (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (label) (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has been serving as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019, including during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine ongoing since 2022.
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Vorontsov Palace (Alupka)
The Vorontsov Palace (Воронцовський палац; Воронцо́вский дворе́ц) or the Alupka Palace is a historic palace situated at the foot of the Crimean Mountains near the town of Alupka in Crimea.
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Waffen-SS
The Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation.
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.
Water scarcity
Water scarcity (closely related to water stress or water crisis) is the lack of fresh water resources to meet the standard water demand.
White movement
The White movement (p), also known as the Whites (Бѣлые / Белые, Beliye), was a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, in the Russian Civil War and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of rebels both outside and within Russian borders in Siberia until roughly World War II (1939–1945).
Winemaking in Crimea
Winemaking in Crimea has existed for over two thousand years.
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Yalta
Yalta (Ялта) is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea.
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Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration.
Yevpatoria
Yevpatoria (Yevpatoriia; Yevpatoriya;; Eupatoría) is a city in Western Crimea, north of Kalamita Bay.
Young Pioneer camp
Young Pioneer camp (Пионерский лагерь) was the name for the vacation or summer camp of Young Pioneers.
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Young Pioneers (Soviet Union)
The Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization, abbreviated as the Young Pioneers, was a compulsory youth organization of the Soviet Union for children and adolescents ages 9–14 that existed between 1922 and 1991.
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Yusuf and Zulaikha
Yusuf and Zulaikha (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) is a title given to many tellings in the Muslim world of the story of the relationship between the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife.
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1926 Soviet census
The 1926 Soviet census (Всесоюзная перепись населения, All-Union census) took place in December 1926.
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1944 (song)
"1944" is a song composed and recorded by the Ukrainian musician Jamala, with it including lyrics by both her and performer Art Antonyan.
1959 Soviet census
The 1959 Soviet census conducted in January 1959 was the first post-World War II census held in the Soviet Union.
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1970 Soviet census
The Soviet census conducted in January 1970 was the first census held in Soviet Union (USSR) in eleven years (since January 1959).
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1989 Soviet census
The 1989 Soviet census (lit), conducted between 12 and 19 January of that year, was the final census carried out in the Soviet Union.
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2001 Ukrainian census
The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine.
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2014 Crimean Federal District census
The Crimean Federal District census (Перепись населения в Крымском федеральном округе), transliterated as Perepis naseleniya v Krymskom federalnom okruge, was carried out in Crimea by Russia in 2014, following its annexation by Russia.
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2014 Crimean status referendum
The Crimean status referendum of 2014 was a disputed referendum on March 16, 2014, concerning the status of Crimea that was conducted in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (both subdivisions of Ukraine) after Russian forces seized control of Crimea.
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2022 Crimean Bridge explosion
On 8 October 2022, at 6:07 a.m., a fire broke out on the Crimean Bridge as a result of an explosion of a bomb loaded onto a truck, which occurred on the road bridge, on the westbound vehicle lanes running from Russia to Kerch in Russian-occupied Crimea.
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2023 Crimean Bridge explosion
On 17 July 2023, at approximately 3:04 a.m. and 3:20 a.m. EEST, the Ukrainian Navy attacked the Crimean Bridge, with two suicide sea drones, damaging a span of the road bridge.
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See also
Crimean Tatars
- Akim Galimov
- Bakhchysarai
- Crimea
- Crimean Khanate
- Crimean Roma
- Crimean Tatar diaspora
- Crimean Tatar people
- Crimean Tatars
- Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
- Eski Dürbe
- Eski Yurt
- Henichesk Raion
- Index of articles related to Crimean Tatars
- Krym Battalion
- List of Crimean Tatars
- List of Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe
- Renaming of Crimean toponyms
- Tarak Tamga
Geographic regions of Ukraine
Peninsulas of Europe
- Balkans
- Courland Peninsula
- Crimea
- Fennoscandia
- Gallipoli Peninsula
- Iberian Peninsula
- Istria
- Italian Peninsula
- Jutland
- Kola Peninsula
- Little Sark
- Scandinavian Peninsula
Turkic toponyms
- Afghan Turkestan
- Budjak
- Crimea
- East Turkestan
- Irtysh
- Mangyshlak Peninsula
- Sor (geomorphology)
- Turkmen Sahra
- Turkmeneli
- Ural Mountains
- Yedisan
- Zhetysu
References
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