May 21, 2018 · CRIMEAN TATARS A Turkic people who settled the Crimean peninsula over the two hundred years after Batu Khan 's conquest, the Tatars of the Crimea came from Central Asia and …

May 21, 2018 · Massive deportations of Tatars fragmented the culture, and the loss of lives and property from those days still has an impact on contemporary Tatar society. Problems with Crimean Tatars …

Krymchaks ETHNONYMS: Crimean Jews, Tatar Jews Source for information on Krymchaks: Encyclopedia of World Cultures dictionary.

RUSSO-OTTOMAN WAR OF 1736 – 1739 The next Russo-Ottoman conflict broke out in 1736, when Russia determined to put a stop to Crimean Tatar attacks on its territories and finally to establish a …

Subsequent treaties extended, clarified, or confirmed the 1667 Peace of Andrusovo. Largely because of this treaty, Muscovy and Poland-Lithuania developed a mutual defensive stance against the Crimean …

CRIMEAN KHANATE One of the surviving political elements of the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate comprised all of the Crimean peninsula, except for the southern and western coast, which was a …

Despite military collaboration with the Turks and Crimean Tatars, Mansur was captured by Russian forces at Anapa in 1791. At the time of the Empress' death in 1796, the so-called Caucasian Line, a …

The Crimean Tatars called the Krimchaks colloquially zuluflu chufutlar (Jews with earlocks), while they called the Karaites zulufsuz chufutlar (Jews without earlocks). The Krimchak language is akin to the …

May 29, 2018 · However, it was for their military skills that Cossacks were famed. They provided invaluable service guarding the borders of Muscovy and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth …

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Ottoman Turks and the Crimean Tatars continued their steady efforts to introduce Islam among the remaining Christian or pagan tribes of the northwestern …