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	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Crimean Tatars in Ukraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ancestors of today’s Crimean Tatars began settling the northern plains of the peninsula in the mid-13th century.
		In 1944, Stalin expelled Crimean Tatar populations to Central Asia, as punishment for supposed Tatar collaboration with the Germans.
		In the long run, the situation of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine will depend to a large degree on the economic situation in the country, so that economic funds can be freed up to better their living conditions without taking resources away from Russians and Ukrainians, and on the political leadership in Kiev and Simferopol.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=36904 (1254 words)

	Crimean War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Crimean War caused a mass exodus of Crimean Tatars towards the Ottoman lands, resulting in massive depopulation in the peninsula.
		The Crimean War occasioned the introduction of hand rolled "paper cigars" — cigarettes — to French and British troops, who copied their Turkish comrades in using old newspaper for rolling when their cigar-leaf rolling tobacco ran out or dried and crumbled.
		Florence Nightingale came into prominence during the Crimean War for her contributions in the field of nursing during the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crimean_War (2417 words)

	MSN Encarta - Crimean War
		Crimean War (1853-1856), military conflict between Russia and a coalition of Great Britain, France, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey); it was a major turning point in the political history of post-Napoleonic Europe.
		The myth of Russian might was laid to rest, and the breakup of the old coalition permitted Germany and Italy to free themselves from Austrian influence and emerge as nations in the decade that followed.
		Finally, the shock of the Crimean defeat was the catalyst for a program of sweeping internal reform in Russia under Nicholas's successor, Alexander II.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579201/Crimean_War.html (918 words)

	AllRefer.com - Crimean War (Wars And Battles) - Encyclopedia
		Crimean War[krImE´un] Pronunciation Key, 1853–56, war between Russia on the one hand and the Ottoman Empire, England, France, and Sardinia on the other.
		The Crimean War ended the dominant role of Russia in SE Europe; the cooling of Austro-Russian relations was an important factor in subsequent European history.
		The scandalous treatment of the troops, particularly the wounded, depicted by war correspondents, prompted the work of Florence Nightingale, which was perhaps the most positive result of the war.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CrimeanW.html (479 words)

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		After the Crimean War (1855-6), the Russian empire sought to expel, and indeed induced by force, large numbers of Tatars from Crimea, on the ground that the tatars sided with the invading allied forces.
		However, those Crimean Tatars remaining in their homeland were also to be subjected to another type of ideological struggle as well --the struggle between kadim (old) and jadid (new).
		Those Crimean Tatars who followed this movement and in all spheres of life advocated adapting to the age of science and were known as the Jadidists.
	www.angelfire.com /on/paksoy/crimean.html (3674 words)

	Chapter 1:Crimean
		Nevertheless, the deportation of the Crimean Tatars is noteworthy for its vast scale and ruthless efficiency.
		Virtually from the moment of Crimean Tatars' emergence as a distinct national group in the 15th Century, their relationship with Russians was strained, marked by mutual distrust.
		The free-fall continued during the Communist era, as the Tatar portion of the Crimean population fell to 20.7 percent in 1937.
	www.osi.hu /fmp/html/chapter_1_crimean.html (4965 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies
		True, in pursuing self-seeking political and ideological aims, leaders of the Crimean Tatar nationalist movement seek to portray the whole period that the Crimean Tatars were part of the Russian Empire and of the U.S.S.R. as a period of their gradual annihilation.
		Demonstrations by Crimean Tatars and their political activism made the Soviet authorities realize that it was impossible to confine themselves to empty promises and talk about successful adaptation of the Crimean Tatars in their settlement areas, and that it was urgent to give the Crimean Tatar problem the due attention that it deserved.
		The Crimean Tatars as an ethnic factor are being used by Kiev in asserting the status of the Crimea as part of Ukraine as well as in its struggle with the Russian community which constitutes the bulk of the population on the peninsula.
	www.ca-c.org /journal/eng-01-2000/10.gitlin.shtml (4618 words)

	Crimean War -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The scandalous treatment of wounded soldiers in the desperate winter that followed was reported by war correspondents for newspapers, prompting the work of (English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910)) Florence Nightingale and introducing modern nursing methods.
		The Crimean War also introduced the first tactical use of (Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system) railways.
		The Crimean War occasioned the introduction of hand rolled "paper cigars" — (Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking) cigarettes — to French and British troops, who copied their Turkish comrades in using old newspaper for rolling when their cigar-leaf rolling tobacco ran out or dried and crumbled.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cr/crimean_war.htm (1080 words)

	All Empires - The Crimean Khanate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1478 upon a request by the Crimean aristocracy Sultan Mehmed II agreed to restore Mengli Giray to his status of khan.
		The army of the Crimean Khan, supported by Lithuanians, defeated the Moscow army and camped at a gate of the city.
		But in 1578 he led an enormous Crimean army that amounted almost to 50 thousands men against the Persian Shah, who at the same time was involved in a struggle with the Ottomans.
	www.allempires.com /empires/Crimean/crimean.htm (7616 words)

	Encyclopedia: Crimean War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689 (Крымские походы in Russian), military campaigns of the Russian army against the Crimean Khanate.
		The Treaty of Paris of 1856 settled the Crimean War between Russia and Ottoman Empire and its allies France and Britain.
		The Battle of Inkermann, a battle of the Crimean War, was fought on November 5, 1854 and resulted in a British and French victory under General Bosquet against the Russian forces under General Menshikov.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Crimean-War (7044 words)

	ICC - International Committee for Crimea
		Crimean Tatars' Return to Their Ancestral Homeland: The Crimea in Statistics.
		A prominent leader of Crimean Tatar diaspora, Ismail Otar died in Istanbul on October 28.
		On September 23, the Crimean Parliament approved overwhelmingly Anatoly Burdyuhov as the new Prime Minister.
	www.iccrimea.org (248 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1944, Stalin expelled Crimean Tatar populations to Central Asia, fearing Tatar collaboration with the Germans.
		A massive influx of Crimean Tatars from Uzbekistan has led and will likely lead to an overcrowding of a scarce housing and greater pressure of former Tatar lands that are now occupied by other groups.
		In the long run, the situation of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine will depend to a large degree on the economic situation in the country so that economic funds can be freed up to better their living conditions without taking resources away from Russians and Ukrainians.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/ukrctat.htm (1255 words)

	Crimean Tatars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Crimea Peninsula is situated in the Black Sea the South of the Ukraine and is connected with the mainland by an isthmus of 8 km.
		The total population of Crimea is approximately 2,5 million of which 12% are Crimean Tatars (275.000), 68% are Russian, 23% Ukrain and 3% Belorussian, Armenian, Greek, German and Karaim.
		Crimean Tatars made progress in the struggle for recognition of their rights and for resettlement of repatriated Tatars.
	www.unpo.org /member.php?arg=20 (587 words)

	The Crimean War and the death of the Concert of Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		he outbreak of the Crimean War in 1853 signified the downfall of the Concert of Europe because it was the first major armed conflict in Europe after the settlement at the Congress of Vienna.
		Additionally, the causes of the Crimean War were contrary to the doctrine of the Concert of Europe because Russia sought to take advantage of the rapidly decaying Ottoman Empire.
		In conclusion, the Crimean War was the main cause of the disintegration of the Concert of Europe because war broke out between the great powers, as was not the case with the earlier armed suppressions of revolutions and the Russo-Turkish War.
	www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us /~bsilva/projects/concert/fogelcon.htm (637 words)

	Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - Crimean War Frequently Asked Questions
		In the Crimean Peninsula (the Black Sea), Asia Minor, the Baltic, the White Sea and on Russia's Pacific coast.
		Three Crimean regiments have not been perpetuated in the modern British Army; these are shown in square brackets.
		The Nurses Register for the Crimean period is held at the Florence Nightingale Museum, St Thomas's Hospital, London.
	www.batteryb.com /Crimean_War/faq.html (1514 words)

	EurasiaNet Culture - Headed Home: Crimean Tatars Struggle to Leave Uzbekistan
		Their message symbolizes the tragedy of Central Asia’s remaining Crimean Tatars, a nation charged en masse of Nazi collaboration during World War II and brutally deported by Stalin from their homeland in Ukraine’s Crimea.
		Almost 100,000 Crimean Tatars are said to live in Uzbekistan today, the survivors and offspring of more than 150,000 people deported here during the lightning-strike deportations of May 1944.
		Crimean Tatars estimate that 46 percent of their people died during deportation, resettlement and the hard labor that followed.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/culture/articles/eav062504.shtml (1505 words)

	Who are the Crimean (Kyrym) Tatars?
		The second study, _The Crimean Tatars_ (Hoover Institution Press, 1978), by the same scholar, Alan W. Fisher, is a concise work on the political, economic, social and cultural life of the Crimean Tatars.
		The fifth study,"National Movements and National Identity among the Crimean Tatars (1905-1916)" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1990), by Hakan Kirimli is a good source for the political history of Crimean Tatars during the first decades of the twentieth century.
		The first article, "Ottoman Colonization of the Crimean Tatars in Bulgaria, 1854-1862" was published in _Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the Turk Tarih Kurumu_ (1970), and deals with the settlement of Crimean Tatars in today's Bulgaria, which was a part of the Ottoman Empire prior to 1912.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9724/Tatar_FAQ-shs006.html (856 words)

	The Crimean Tatars: Historical Profile
		Crimean Tatars are a non-Russian people of Turkish descent living in the Soviet Union.
		Truthfully, the majority of Crimean Tatars not only remained loyal, but many fought against the Germans during the war, but this did not deter Stalin from herding 200,000 to 250,000 of them into trucks for deportation.
		Marriages outside the Crimean Tatar community are not as rare as they have appeared to be in the past; however, often those marrying into a Crimean Tatar family often adopt the lifestyle and practices of the family to which they are uniting.
	www.teamfact.org /crimean-tatars.html (554 words)

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		Crimean Tatars are awfully discriminated against, collectively, individually, and at the national level.
		Recently the difficult situation of the Crimean Tatar people is becoming complicated because of the fact that the administration of the Crimea follows the separatist policy against the will of the Indigenous People in order to take out the peninsula from the Ukrainian jurisdiction and join Russia.
		The Crimean Tatars are not compensated for material and spiritual damage, caused by their deportation.
	www.halcyon.com /pub/FWDP/Eurasia/tatar94.txt (882 words)

	Roger Fenton Crimean War Photographs (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		The Crimean War (1853-1856) was fought primarily on the southern tip of the Crimea, a peninsula extending into the Black Sea, barely connected to Ukraine.
		The titles cited in the checklist are usually taken from the object mount and are often the titles as published by Agnew and Sons in 1855 or 1856.
		A section on the Crimean War under "Early War Photographs." A rather hasty account presenting the generally known facts concerning the early attempts by Szathmari, initial attempts made by the British government, an account of Fenton's time in the Crimea, and the war photographs taken by James Robertson and Felice Beato.
	www.loc.gov /rr/print/coll/251_fen.html (4984 words)

	Crimean Tatar NGOs
		As Crimean Tatars strive to resettle in their ancestral homeland, after a fifty-year forced exile, their work at the grass-roots level is assisted by a number of international organizations.
		Recently, a seminar for members of National Mejlis (self-governing body of the Crimean Tatar people) was organized with the assistance of the FED. At this seminar, there was an interesting exchange of opinions on such democratic principles as basics of negotiation, determining goals and ways to achieve them, and holding conferences, meetings and congresses.
		Crimean Tatar non-profit organizations work not only in traditional spheres, but also in areas relating to the repatriation of the deportees.
	www.iccrimea.org /ngos/ngos.html (4643 words)

	The Crimean Tatar Fact Sheet
		Kirim- Kirim Turklerinin Yerlesme ve Gocleri (Crimea- The Settlement and Emigration of The Crimean Turks).
		Carlik Akimivetinde Kirim Faciasi Yahut Tatar Hicretleri (The Crimean Tragedy Under the Tsarist Rule or the Tatar Emigrations).
		Yani Dunya is the continuation of Lenin Bayragi which was the first Crimean Tatar newspaper that began its pubilcation on May 1, 1957 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
	www.turkiye.net /sota/krbibli.html (347 words)

	Crimean War -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		(October 1853–February 1856), war fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish, with support, from January 1855, by the army of Sardinia-Piedmont.
		Even the bitter experiences of appalling losses in the Crimean, Franco-German, and South African (Boer) wars failed to lessen an ardour for the theory of the offensive that was so fervent as to leave little concern for defensive tactics in...
		The Crimean War was named for the Crimean peninsula, in what is now Ukraine, which was the main site of the war.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9027905 (926 words)

	Who are the Crimean Tatars?
		The ancient Greeks established colonies on the coast in the 6th century B.C., and later the control of the sea ports passed on to the Romans and eventually the Byzantines.
		Under oppressive Tsarist policy, the Crimean Tatars began leaving their homeland, and emigrations to the Ottoman lands continued thru the 19th century, especially after the Crimean War (1853-56).
		With the 1944 deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population by Stalin, it seemed that the Tatar presence in the Crimea was completely eliminated.
	www.euronet.nl /users/sota/krimwho.html (655 words)

	Crimean War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After a dispute with the Ottoman Empire over the guardianship of several holy towns in Palestine and the protection of Orthodox Christians, Russia invaded Moldavia and Wallachia, both semi-autonomous vassals of the Ottoman Empire, resulting in a declaration of war by the Ottomans in late 1853.
		The Crimean War introduced the first tactical use of railways.
		Immediate causes of the War detailed in context.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/c/cr/crimean_war_1.html (702 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Crimean Submediterranean forest complex (PA0416)
		This ecoregion is also rich in endemic plants--between 240 to 300 species can be found in the Crimean Mountains and the northwest flanks of the Caucasus.
		Crimean maquis forests, or shiblyak, consist of oak, hornbeam, Christ’s thorn, and pyracantha.
		Although Mediterranean monk seals are no longer found on the Crimean coastline, there are now efforts to reintroduce them.
	nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa0416.html (388 words)

	Crimean Tatar Home Page
		The Crimean Tatars are Turkic people who inhabited the Crimean peninsula, now a part of Ukraine, for over seven centuries.
		Today more than 250,000 Crimean Tatars are back in their homeland, struggling to reestablish their lives and reclaim their national and cultural rights against many social and economic obstacles.
		B.S. Ç: A Crimean Tatar Poet by I.Bowman
	www.euronet.nl /users/sota/krimtatar.html (410 words)

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