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Haci Giray established the Crimean Khanate in the 1440s.

On April 8, 1783, Empress Catherine II announced the annexation of the Khanate of Crimea to the Russian Empire

Translation of the ZOOID note:
"Inscription over the doors of the tomb built, it is thought, by Mengli Giray Khan for his father, Haji Giray Khan, outside Bahçesaray at Chufut Kale (the Jewish fortress), in the area called Salaçık."

Translation…

Journal of the Odessa Society. The Society was established in 1838 by Governor-General Vorontsov. [...]

Borzenko was a translator in the office of Prince M. S. Vorontsov. Later he served as vice-governor of Kutaisi. Borzenko was a corresponding member of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities.

Vorontsov charged Borzenko with trans...

Member of the Academy of Sciences; founding member of the Moscow Archaeological Society; son of Sergei Semenovich, Minister of Education 1833-1849.

Uvarov led excavations in Tavrida province in 1853-1854.

Administrative unit (roughly equivalent to county) within Tavrida Province
Uezd Town: Feodosiia (Caffa, Kefe)

Temir Bey Biiarslan's petition for noble status is in DAARK Fond 49. While I worked extensively with the fond, this is one of the files I did not happen to read. Alas.

The average length of files pertaining to inscription in the noble register (I itemized 740 during my time in the archive, though I might have missed one here or there) is 35 listy.