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The "Eastern cabinet" (Восточный кабинет) was the first iteration of the Asiatic Museum - an institution called into existence in 1818 by Count Sergej Semenovich Uvarov. Known best as the architect of the "Official Nationality" policy rolled out…

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture lists the mausoleum at Salaciq under the Turkish version of its name: the Haci Giray Han Türbesi; the Russian translation is "durbe Khadzhi-Giraia". The site has been on the tentative list of World…

Keppen explains (page 45] that the Crimean Tatars marked grave sites with simple pillars. A chalma(turban) traditionally topped the grave of a man, while a flat shliapka(cap) often topped that of a woman's grave.

The only two-story Greek church found by Petr Keppen and documented in his "On the antiquities of southern Crimea".

Fortifications ranged in and immediately surrounding Tavrida; the newest province of the Russian Empire at the time Wildbrecht's map was published in 1792.

Administrative unit (roughly equivalent to county) within Tavrida Province
Uezd Town: Evpatoriia (formerly Gozleve)