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| | SEVASTOPOL.ORG - Southern Coast of Crimea : Romanovs in Crimea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | The Crimea is a large peninsula, where the centuries, merging into one another, left their noticeable imprint on its history. |
 | | Since the 15th century the Crimea was a separate state, the Tartar Khanate of Crimea, under Turkey's protection, and the defence of the southern frontiers, against the inroads of the Crimean Tartars, became the basic course in Russian foreign policy: the first Romanovs did not wage any regular wars down south. |
 | | In 1774, by the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji, Catherine II forced Turkey to recognize the independence of the Crimea, and in 1783 she annexed the peninsula. |
| www.sevastopol.org /UBK/romanov1.htm (566 words) |
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