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	Crimean Peninsula
		The Crimean peninsula juts into the Black Sea and connects to the mainland by a narrow strip of land.
		Syvash is an area of marshy inlets and coves on the western margin of the Sea of Azov, from which it is separated by the Arabat Spit, a sandbar measuring from 900 feet to 5 miles (270 m to 8 km) in width.
		City on the Kalamit Bay on the west coast of the Crimean Peninsula.
	www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Labyrinth/2398/bginfo/geo/crimea.html (1632 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Crimean peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Crimea a peninsula on the north side of the Black Sea, with the mainland of which it is connected by the Isthmus of Perekop[?] (3-4 miles across).
		In the 13th century the Genoese destroyed or seized the settlements which their rivals the Venetians had made on the Crimean coasts, and established themselves at Eupatoria[?], Cembalo[?] (Balaklava[?]), Soldaia[?] (Sudak[?]), and Kaffa (Theodosia), flourishing trading towns, which existed down to the conquest of the peninsula by the Ottoman Turks in 1475.
		Meanwhile the Tatars had got a firm footing in the northern and central parts of the peninsula as early as the 13th century, and after the destruction of the Golden Horde by Timur they founded an independent khanate under a descendant of Genghis Khan, who is known as Hadji Ghirai[?].
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/cr/Crimean_peninsula (691 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for crimean
		The peninsula is bounded on the S and W by the Black Sea.
		Known as Surkhat or Solkhat from the 13th to the 15th cent., it was the residence of the vice regents of the khans of the Golden Horde.
		Genetic characterization of the M RNA segment of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus strains, China.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=crimean&StartAt=1 (971 words)

	Sights<<< ........CRIMEAN tourism
		The distance between extreme northern point of the Crimean peninsula (Perekop Isthmus) and extreme southern point (Cape of Sarych) is 207 km, and between western (Cape of Cara-Mrun on the Tarhankut Peninsula) and eastern (Cape of Fonar on Kerch Peninsula) points - is 324 km.
		The surface of peninsula is also various: vast flat plains alternate with the dispersed heights that are replaced with mountain ranges abruptly breaking to the sea.
		Because of Crimean mountains, stretching along the latitude, there is a sharp contrast between the climatic zones within the small peninsula: from moderate steppen climate on the plain part of it to sub-mediterranean (with elements subtropical) on the Southern coast.
	www.tourism.crimea.ua /eng/about/geogr/index.html (630 words)

	Chapter 4:Crimean
		Many sources of tension-emanating from both within and from outside the Crimean peninsula-have fostered an environment in which the elements for violent confrontation can quickly fuse, as they did during protests in 1992 and 1995.
		In the Crimea's case, the empire phenomenon is enhanced by to the fact that the peninsula was an integral part of Russia until 1954.
		Whether or not Crimean Tatars ever abandon moderation in favor of violence as a means to achieve their goals will probably depend upon the future course pursued by the mejlis.
	www.osi.hu /fmp/html/chapter_4_crimean.html (2585 words)

	The Crimean Tatars by Greta Lynn Uehling
		The northern two-thirds of the Crimean peninsula is an extension of the Eurasian steppe and nomadic groups migrating from the east such as the Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns, Khazars, Pechenegs, Kipchaks, and Mongols were attracted to the excellent pasture it offered their herds.
		The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic represents a fleeting Golden Age before this status was revoked and Crimea, along with the rest of the USSR, was plunged into mass repression of intellectuals and clergy, state-sanctioned famine, and forced collectivization of agriculture.
		The Crimean Tatars' primary objectives are government sponsored return of the Crimean Tatar people to Crimea; full restoration of their rights and property; recognition of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis as the official representative body; and representation of the Crimean Tatars in the Crimean Parliament.
	www.iccrimea.org /scholarly/krimtatars.html (4241 words)

	Flood Geology of the Crimean Peninsula, Part I: Tavrick Formation
		However, at the Crimean Peninsula, there are clear field evidences of catastrophic geologic action that have been are interpreted within the framework of uniformitarianism in spite of the evidence.
		It is exposed in the central part of the Crimean anticline and on the south coast of the peninsula.
		Invariability of the mineral associations is evidence of a single and complex source of detritus for all of the Crimean peninsula and adjacent territories during flysch deposition (Logvinenko and Karpova, 1961, p.
	www.creationresearch.org /cgi-bin/MasterPFP.cgi?doc=http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/38/38_3/Crimean.htm (3170 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)

	The Deportation and Fate of the Crimean Tatars
		Crimean Tatars were particularly noted for their brutal reprisals towards Soviet partisans, and also assisted the German occupiers in organizing the forcible sending to German slavery and mass destruction of Soviet people.
		Crimean Tatars actively collaborated with the German occupying powers, participating in the so called "Tatar National Committees" organized by German intelligence and were extensively used by the Germans to infiltrate the rear of the Red Army with spies and diversionists.
		In 1941 the NKVD deported the Soviet Germans and Finns, in 1943 the Karachays and Kalmyks, and in 1944 the Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Crimean Tatars, and Meskhetian Turks.
	www.iccrimea.org /scholarly/jopohl.html (7708 words)

	Crimean peninsula (crimea) for travel
		The Crimean peninsula occupies the territory of 26 000 sq.km.The nearest biggest international airport is in Kiev; the nearest smaller international airport is in Simferopol.
		On the plateau the average annual temperature is +5-8°C and in the spring and autumn frosts occur.
		South-west of Crimean peninsula is an area with a moderate humidity: 500 mm is average annual precipitation.
	www.mt.crimea.com /crimea.html (917 words)

	Tatars: Crimean Tatars
		T[H]e Crimean Tatars are the descendants of the native Crimean population and of the Tatars who occupied the peninsula in the thirteenth century.
		With the 1944 deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population by Stalin, it seemed that the Tatar presence in the Crimea was completely eliminated.
		With the exception of Crimean Tatars, Crimean cities were filled with dedicated Yanukovych supporters, including the Cossacks, who took to the streets waving their Russian flags, Putin and Yanukovych posters, and hand-made Russian symbols.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/tatars--crimean-tatars.html (613 words)

	History of Crimean Peninsula - Ïîõîä Êðûì
		The Crimean Peninsula is a golden prize, that has always been difficult to control.
		In ancient times, it was dangerous to live in fertile and convenient valleys, since the Crimean peninsula suffered from the constant raids of nomadic tribes.
		After the Crimean War of 1854-56, and in the first years of the 20th century, the Tatars emigrated in large numbers to the Ottoman empire.
	www.outdoorukraine.com /content/view/71/34/lang,ru (1357 words)

	workhorse: Crimea
		the majority of the citizens on the Crimean peninsula are ethnic Russians (estimated at 60 percent).
		Crimean Tatars therefore found themselves in their homeland but without rights to the land they once owned.
		the Crimean Tatars are also discriminated against by political forces in Crimea; for instance, when there is violence the Crimean Tatars are usually blamed and then punished out of proportion for their wrongdoings.
	favoritehorse.blogspot.com /2005/05/crimea.html (928 words)

	Welcome to tatarworld.com !
		Crimean peninsula, today a part of Ukraine is the homeland of the Crimean Tatars, who are Sunni Muslims of Hanafi School and speak Kipchak Turkic language.
		The remaining Crimean Tatars in the homeland were deported on the 18 th of May, 1944 by the Soviet government, being unjustly accused of collaboration with the Nazis.
		Crimea is a 27000 sq meter peninsula on the north side of the Black Sea which is connected to the mainland by Isthmus of Perekop(3-4m across).
	tatarworld.com /history.htm (1466 words)

	Crimean War at AllExperts
		The Crimean War lasted from 28 March 1853 until 1 April 1856 and was fought between Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and (to some extent) the Ottoman Empire on the other.
		Modern naval mining is said to date from the Crimean War: "Torpedo mines, if I may use this name given by Fulton to self-acting mines underwater, were among the novelties attempted by the Russians in their defenses about Cronstadt and Sebastopol", as one American officer put it in 1860 [1].
		The Crimean War is also credited by many as being the first modern war, employing trenches and blind artillery fire (gunners often relied on spotters rather than actually being on the battlefield).
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/cr/crimean_war.htm (2953 words)

	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
		The formation of the Krymchaks as an ethnic group began in the 13th--14th centuries on the Crimean Peninsula and the process was completed by the end of the 19th century.
		A purely Crimean Jewish way of worship had been created by the turn of the 15th century based on the book of prayers of the Kafa ritual.
		The Crimean Tatar language was the universal means of communication in the Crimea from the 15th to the 19th centuries.
	www.eki.ee /books/redbook/crimean_jews.shtml (1097 words)

	Ukraine: Power-Sharing Deal Gives Tatar Minority A Greater Role In Crimean Affairs - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Matviyenko was appointed prime minister of the peninsula by President Yushchenko in the wake of the Orange Revolution.
		Crimean Tatars, who now make up roughly 20 percent of the peninsula's population, were deported by former Soviet leader Josef Stalin to Central Asia in 1944 on the pretext that they had collaborated with Nazi occupiers.
		Now, it seems the peninsula's ethnic Ukrainian and Russian majority and their Crimean Tatar counterparts could be opening a brighter chapter in their often strained relations.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/05/af7e7727-37a3-44f6-98ca-67f3c921be8f.html (762 words)

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		The Crimean Tatars for a long time were group with all the rest of the Tatars within the Russian boarders.
		The Crimean Tatars’ original homeland was the Crimean Peninsula.
		century the Crimean Tartars were forced out or left the area and they became a minority in their own homeland.
	filebox.vt.edu /p/peckenro/Crimean.htm (240 words)

	Turkish Weekly Articles - Sources Of Ethnic Conflicts And Conflict Resolution In Crimean Peninsula: Deportation ...
		The Crimean Tatars case provides a clear example of the conflictual relationship between the interest in nation-state building, which is perceived as vital by weak new states struggling to survive as independent entities, and the attempt by minorities to preserve and regain their identity.
		In the case of the Crimean Tatars, it is obvious that the systemwide political, economic, and cultural disintegration and the attempts at reintegration along ethnic lines are the principal sources for the emergence of an ethno-national conflict.
		For the Crimean Tatars the main chosen trauma is the deportation (surgun) and the main chosen glory is the establishment of the Crimean ASSR in 1921.
	www.turkishweekly.net /articles.php?id=97 (5636 words)

	Crimean Tatars
		The national awakening of the Crimean Tatars began in the last quarter of the 19th century nurtured by the rise of Pan-Islamism and the Pan-Turkish movements.
		In 1945 the Crimean ASSR was downgraded to an autonomous region and in 1954 it was incorporated into the Ukraine.
		In 1957 the Crimean Tatars began a campaign to collect signatures for petition to be allowed to return to their homeland.
	www.kresy.co.uk /krym.html (1148 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)

	The Crimean War (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Crimean War was fought between Russian forces and the allied armies of Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey), and Sardinia.
		Major battles in the Crimean Peninsula occurred along the River Alma and around the towns of Sevastopol, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Yevpatoriya (also spelled Eupatoria).
		The Crimean War was the first war to be covered by newspaper reporters and photographers at the front.
	www.lawtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/crimean.html (273 words)

	Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine -- the Earth in Miniature. Part 1.
		Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine -- the Earth in Miniature.
		The Crimean Peninsula is not that big: 150 miles at its widest point from east to west and 100 miles from north to south.
		Crimean wines are bright, mildly ardent, fragrant, and highly valued all over the world.
	www.ideamarketers.com /library/article.cfm?articleid=139880 (984 words)

	The Krim - Crimea Ukraine
		Crimea is located as a peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
		Tolstoy was able to use his Crimean War experiences in his book "War and Peace" about the Russian/Napoleonic war and The Crimean War was also the first in which use was made of railways.
		The Parliament of the Soviet Union officially recognize the injustice of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars ordered by Stalin but still forbid Crimean Tatars to return to their homeland.
	crimea.ijuela.com (610 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)

	The War To End All Wars by Laurence M. Vance
		There are three things that came out of the Crimean War that most people are familiar with but have no idea that they are connected with it: the nurse Florence Nightingale, the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade," and the novel War and Peace.
		After hearing of the deplorable conditions that existed in the British Military Hospital at Scutari, opposite of Constantinople, she arrived in the Crimea with 38 nurses on November 4, 1854, and soon began to improve the conditions at the hospital.
		The underlying cause of the Crimean War was the Eastern Question – the international problem of European territory controlled by the decaying Ottoman Empire.
	www.lewrockwell.com /vance/vance10.html (1582 words)

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