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The Crimean War also saw the first tactical use of railways and other modern inventions, such as the electric telegraph, with the first "live" war reporting by Russell. Some credit Russell with prompting the resignation of the sitting British government through his reporting of the lacklustre condition of British forces deployed in Crimea.
Crimea was part of the Crimean Khanate from 1441 until it was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783. After the end of the empire in the first stages of the Russian Civil War there were a series of short-lived independent governments ( Crimean People's Republic, Crimean Regional Government, Crimean SSR ).
Ancient settlements in Crimea and surrounding area Coin from Chersonesus with Artemis, deer, bull, club and quiver (c. 300 BC). The recorded history of the Crimean Peninsula, historically known as Tauris, Taurica (Greek: Ταυρική or Ταυρικά), and the Tauric Chersonese (Greek: Χερσόνησος Ταυρική, "Tauric Peninsula"), begins around the 5th century BCE when several ...
In English, the omission of the definite article in English ("Crimea" rather than "the Crimea") became common during the later 20th century. [citation needed]The spelling "Crimea" is from the Italian form, la Crimea, since at least the 17th century [3] and the "Crimean peninsula" becomes current during the 18th century, gradually replacing the classical name of Tauric Peninsula in the course ...
e. Crimean Tatars ( Crimean Tatar: qırımtatarlar, къырымтатарлар) or Crimeans ( Crimean Tatar: qırımlılar, къырымлылар) are a Turkic ethnic group and nation native to Crimea. The formation and ethnogenesis of Crimean Tatars occurred during the 13th–17th centuries, uniting Cumans, who appeared in Crimea in the ...
On 27 February 2014, unmarked Russian soldiers were deployed to the Crimean Peninsula in order to wrest control of it from Ukraine, starting the Russo-Ukrainian War. [ 1] This military occupation, which the Ukrainian government considers to have begun on 20 February, [ 4][ 9] laid the foundation for the Russian annexation of Crimea on 18 March ...
After the Crimean referendum of 1991, which asked whether Crimea should be elevated to a signatory of the New Union Treaty (that is, became a union republic on its own), the Ukrainian SSR restored Crimea's autonomous status ( Crimean Autonomous SSR ), but confirmed that autonomy restored as a part of the Ukrainian SSR.
Crimea highlighted on a map of the Black Sea. The Crimean Tatars controlled the Crimean Khanate from 1441 to 1783, when Crimea was annexed by the Russian Empire as a target of Russian expansion. By the 14th century, most of the Turkic-speaking population of Crimea had adopted Islam, following the conversion of Ozbeg Khan of the Golden Horde.