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Silvio Berlusconi visits war memorial in Crimea with Vladimir Putin

Edit The Independent 14 Sep 2015
Vladimir's Cathedral as they visit the ancient Greek colony of Chersonesus, major archaeological site in Crimea, outside Sevastopol, Crimea Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi (L) examine the Khan's Palace, a former residence of the Crimean Khanate, while visiting the Bakhchisaray Historical and ......

Ukraine crisis: Crimean Tatars uneasy under Russia rule

Edit BBC News 25 Aug 2015
The Crimean Tatar TV channel is no longer permitted to broadcast from the peninsula, which was annexed by Moscow in March 2014 ... But that distrust of Moscow is deep-rooted amongst Crimean Tatars. For 300 years, the peninsula that bulges into the Black Sea was home to the Crimean Khanate ... The Crimean Tatars began their difficult homecoming in the late 1980s and today make up some 12% of the population....

More Than a Year After Annexation, Crimean Tatars Need Allies

Edit Huffington Post 08 May 2015
At that time, we only found pre-schools where Crimean Tatar was being taught and spoken ... For more than 300 years, from the middle of the 15th to the end of the 18th centuries, Tatars had their own state in Crimea called the Crimean Khanate ... How can you incorporate the Tatars into the state if schools teach that the Crimean Khanate was detrimental toward Ukrainian attempts to construct the state in the first place?"....

Killings in the Name of Ukrainian Land of Donbas

Edit CounterPunch 07 Apr 2015
Why? Because they are defending their own land against “separatists” who want to join Donbas to Russia. These separatists as well as their masters in Moscow carry inside themselves the root of evil ... “no” ... Being under the control of Crimean Khanate, it was a frontier, a buffer zone between nomadic cultures of Tatars, Nogai, Krymchaks and other tribes and agricultural settlements of the Dnieper regions to the west of Donbas ... ....

Putin's war on the Crimean Tatars

Edit Al Jazeera 07 Mar 2015
This is especially true with the minority Crimean Tatar community - an ethnically Turkic and religiously Sunni Islam community which has faced decades of religious and political persecution under Russian domination ... The Crimean Khanate - a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire - survived for 300 years until Russia's Catherine the Great took over the peninsula in 1783 ... The Soviets never had the wellbeing of the Crimean Tatars in mind....

“History and cultures of Muslim peoples around the Black Sea”: an IRCICA congress in Bucharest, Romania 4-5 November 2014 (IRCICA - Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture)

Edit noodls 02 Dec 2014
Speakers in the third session were Professors Fehmi Yılmaz ("Cultural History of Crimean Muslims"), Shahin Mustafayev ("Muslims in Caucasia"), Albert Burkhanov ("The Traces of Crimean Khanate") and Eugen Nicolae ("Islamic Monuments in Moldavia") gave talks in the last session....

'Russia's treatment of Crimean Tatars echoes mistakes made by Soviets'

Edit The Guardian 25 Nov 2014
A Crimean Tatar prays at a mosque in Ukraine ... Rather, it stalks the newly acquired peninsula of Crimea and is bound up with the fate of the Crimean Tatars ... The Crimean Tatars are the ancient, native inhabitants of Crimea. They absorbed a great many of the peninsula’s different peoples and had their own state, the Crimean Khanate, for more than 300 years from the middle of the 15th to the end of the 18th centuries....

How the Crimean Tatars have survived

Edit The Guardian 21 Jun 2014
Since the peninsula was conquered by Russia in 1786, about a million Crimean Tatars, whose tolerant Khanate ruled the peninsula for 400 years, have been deported in waves of expulsions, making their survival something of a miracle ... Once suzerain over the Crimean Khanate, it is, however, as dependent as Europe on Russia for its energy supplies ... If any extinct state is a candidate for resurrection, the Crimean Khanate qualifies....

Ukraine's last resort: discovering the real Crimea

Edit The Guardian 27 Apr 2014
From holidaymakers on the Black Sea he learned why the Russians love it – and why the Crimeans are happy to welcome them ... when foreign travel was prohibited, Crimean resorts such as Yalta with its Massandra beach were popular holiday destinations ... There is Bakhchisaray, the former seat of the Crimean Khanate, and in its winding streets one feels the imprint of the Orient....

Crimea: Europe’s flashpoint

Edit Sun Star 28 Mar 2014
THE crisis on the Crimean peninsula has been on everyone’s lips lately ... The descendants of the Timurids, the Crimean Tatars, still live there today. They once had their own country separate from both Russia and the Ukraine, called the Crimean Khanate, which was a protectorate of the powerful Muslim Ottoman Empire ... The Crimean Khanate ceased to exist when it was attacked by an alliance of Russians and Ukrainians in the 18th century....

Crimea: Whose land is this? Part 1

Edit Al Jazeera 21 Mar 2014
On March 16, the Crimean referendum took place without any fighting or clashes, which Kiev and Washington were hoping to use to discredit the process.  ... Independently from Russia, but not from the Ottoman Empire, the Crimean khanate existed until 1783, when it was conquered by the army of Russian Empress Catharine II, who set up a port at the old location of Chersonesus to host the Russian Black Sea fleet....

Crimea's return to Russia leaves Tatars fearful of future

Edit Reuters 18 Mar 2014
"Why do I not want to be a part of Russia?" asked Mustafa Asaba, a regional leader of Crimean Tatars ... Like Tatars, Russian nationalists have long memories, and recall to this day that the Crimean Khanate which Tatars ruled from the 15th to the 18th century was notorious for enslaving Christian Slavs and selling them on in the Ottoman Empire....

Crimean wars

Edit South China Morning Post 16 Mar 2014
Bakhchisaray was formerly the capital of the Crimean khanate and once an important crossroad of the Silk Road, where traders met from across the Black Sea, the steppes of Central Asia, Russia, and eastern Europe ... On one hand, the palace represented the sophistication of the Crimean Tatar khanate, which had once wielded much power, but on the other, ......
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