- Crimea - Wikipedia
In 1783, after the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774), the Russian Empire annexed Crimea Crimea's strategic position led to the 1854 Crimean War and many short lived regimes following the 1917 Russian Revolution When the Bolsheviks secured Crimea, it became an autonomous soviet republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Crimea | History, Map, Geography, Kerch Strait Bridge | Britannica
Crimea, autonomous republic, southern Ukraine The republic is coterminous with the Crimean Peninsula, lying between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov In 2014 Russia covertly invaded and illegally annexed Crimea, a move that was denounced by the international community
- Explainer-Where is Crimea and why is it contested?
Crimea, which juts out into the Black Sea off southern Ukraine, was absorbed into the Russian Empire along with most ethnic Ukrainian territory by Catherine the Great in the 18th century
- Ten years since its illegal annexation, Crimea is a template for newly . . .
“We are going home Crimea is in Russia,” Russian-installed Crimean Prime Minister Sergey Aksyonov told crowds gathered in Simferopol, while votes were still being counted
- Crimea profile - BBC News
Given autonomous republic status within Russia after the Bolshevik revolution, Crimea was occupied by Nazi Germany following Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941
- What has happened in Crimea since Russias invasion?
It has been 11 years since Russia took control of Crimea but Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has put the peninsula back in the global spotlight Here's what you need to know
- Crimea - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crimea has a surface of 26,081 square kilometres (10,070 sq mi) About 2 4 million people live there The Ottoman Empire had the peninsula for a long time In the 18th century the Russian Empire took control The Crimean War was fought here Crimea was part of Russia until the Soviet Union gave it to Ukraine in 1954
- Crimea - WorldAtlas
Crimea, formerly known as the Tauric Peninsula, is a peninsula in Eastern Europe surrounded by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov The Isthmus of Perekop connect the peninsula to Kherson on mainland Ukraine, with the Strait of Kerch separating it from Kuban, Russia
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