Crimean Khanate

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Economist 18 Aug 2022

A push in the right direction\nAs the original public policy “nudge” unit, the Behavioural Insights Team shares your interest in research in the field (“Nudge factor”, July 30th) ... \nYou missed the bigger point ... Russian colonialism began in earnest by the mid-1500s, with Muscovy’s conquest of the Khanates ... Kalmyks, Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Georgians.

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The Ukrainian Muslims fighting against Russia

Al Jazeera 04 Aug 2022

As the religion of the Crimean Khanate, which lasted from the 15th to 18th century, Islam left an indelible political and cultural imprint ... Ismail Kurt-Umer was born in 1991 in Crimea and grew up in Bakhchysarai, the ancient Khanate capital, as Crimean Tatar families were making their historic journeys home.

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Explainer: What Was the 1654 Treaty of Pereyaslav?

Moscow Times 03 Aug 2022

It wasn’t just the military and politicians who found it difficult to accept Ukraine as a sovereign nation ... the 1654 Treaty of Pereyaslav. What was the geopolitical situation at the time? ... Like in Muscovy, Daniel fought other kingdoms, duchies, and empires to claim these lands, while Poland and the Crimean Khanate colonizing territories ... ....

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Insane moment two teams of 600 boxers get into an incredible mega-brawl in a field ...

The Daily Mail 02 Aug 2022

The two walls of men meet and chaos ensues as the teams begin to punch into each other ... With their resources stretched, the Crimean Khanate sensed an opportunity to invade Moscow from the south. Around 25,000 Russians held off 40,000 invading Crimean Khanate to save the city, which is why the battle has been honoured in this bizarre and violent way. .

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Putin more Vladimir the Reactionary than Peter the Great

Asiatimes 04 Jul 2022

In Peter’s era, most of the northern Black Sea Steppe was still controlled by the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate, while the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth held lands all the way to Kiev ... His military sin was losing the Crimean War (1853-56), but the tsar was also a ...

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Ukraine invasion suggests Putin is more Vladimir the Reactionary than Peter the Great

The Conversation 30 Jun 2022

In Peter’s era, most of the northern Black Sea Steppe was still controlled by the Ottoman empire and the Crimean Khanate, while the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth held lands all the way to Kyiv ... His military sin was losing the Crimean War (1853-56), but the tsar was also a ...

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Russia-Ukraine War A Reminder That Ethnic, National Conflicts Are Not A Thing of the Past, ...

The Unz Review 29 Jun 2022

. But what strikes me most about the war is its ethnic dimension ... Ukrainians want to stay Ukrainians, and Russians want to stay Russian ... History has not ended ... Up until the early 20th century, Ukraine was under the control of the Kievan Rus’, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate, Czarist Russia, and Austria-Hungary.

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The founding, conquering and destruction of Mariupol

The Spectator 26 Jun 2022

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries all the separate parties whose interests collided round the ‘Sea of Fish’ – the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Dnieper Cossacks, the Crimean Khanate, the Ottoman Empire, and the Grand Duchy of Moscow – became entangled in a web of protracted and interrelated conflicts.

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Ukraine war draws attention to region's historical backstory

Anadolu Agency 21 May 2022

Kahraman Sakul ... Amid the political fragmentation of the Kyivan Rus, the Principality of Kyiv emerged in the early 12th century ... As for the Ottomans' encounters in Ukraine, Sakul drew attention to the relations conducted through the Crimean Tatar Khanate, which ruled over southern Ukraine and the Crimea Peninsula for centuries ... .

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Ukraine: Nowhere left to run for Crimea’s Russia-hating Tatars

Asiatimes 18 Mar 2022

The Tatar state known as the Crimean Khanate on the Black Sea at its peak in the 16th Century ... The Crimean Khanate went on to rule the region extending from the Caucasus Mountains to Moldova for centuries, even after the Mongol empire in China, Russia and the Middle East collapsed ... They also arrested, tortured and killed Crimean Tatar activists.

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Why Crimean Tatars are fearful as Russia invades Ukraine

The Buffalo News 17 Mar 2022

Some have vowed to defend Ukraine, a land many fled to in 2014 after Putin’s forces invaded the Crimean Peninsula and began to repress the local Crimean Tatars ... The Crimean Khanate went on to rule the region extending from the Caucasus Mountains to Moldova for centuries, even after the Mongol empire in China, Russia and the Middle East collapsed.

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Timeline: The Crimean Referendum

GlobalResearch 09 Mar 2022

Prior to this, Crimea had been a part of Russia since 1783 when the Russian Empire took control of the Crimean Khanate following the decline in power of the Ottoman Empire ... The Ukrainian parliament recognises this independence, passing the “Law On Restoration of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialistic Republic as part of USSR”.

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Ukraine's cultural heritage faces destruction as Russian bombing continues

The Conversation 09 Mar 2022

But this rich cultural history is now at risk ... Outside of Kyiv ... The Crimean peninsula boasts the remains of ancient Greek and Roman cities and medieval Genoese fortresses . The peninsula’s rich Tartar culture is represented by palace structures and a mosque in the central Crimean city of Bakhchysarai , once the capital of the powerful Crimean Khanate.

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Ukraine Muslims are awry of Russian invasion

The Siasat Daily 05 Mar 2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022, has brought uncertainties to about 400,000 Muslims, the majority being Crimean Tatar ... The other ethnic Muslim groups in Ukraine besides Crimean Tatar are Volga Tatars, Azeris, North Caucasians,s and Uzbeks ... Muslims established the Crimean Khanate in southern Ukraine in the 15th century.

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Wheat and deep ports: The long history of Putin's invasion of Ukraine

Raw Story 28 Feb 2022

But there is a bigger and much older geopolitical story behind this buildup of troops ... The war she started against both the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire was just one of many Russian wars of expansion into the Black Sea region. In 1768, however, Catherine the Great succeeded. She was bent on seizing land that would supply Europe with fuel.