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Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.[...] Omeka is a Swahili word meaning to display or lay out wares; to speak out; to spread out;…

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.

Chromolithograph of the mausoleum of the founder of the Giray dynasty and his successor, Mengli Giray (d.1515), who commissioned the building.Examine the image in more detail here.

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