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5 Greeks abandoned this area in 1778.
Tags: Greek settlement
372 Greeks abandoned this area in 1778.
Tags: Greek settlement
2,000 desiatinas of land and 4 desiatinas of orchards in the Otuz Valley.
Karaite woman with children. Crimean Karaites are an ethnic group derived from Turkic-speaking followers of Karaism found in in Eastern Europe. Karaism is a denomination of judaism. Demidov notes that on a visit to the home of the rabbi of Chufut…
Tags: domestic life, lithograph, Tatar culture
At Marsanda the remains of a church are visible down near the sea, but Keppen is unsure whether this site was fortified. The church on the cape of St. John was behind walls.
Tags: church, fortification, ruin
Tags: apple, cherry, date, gardens: state-owned, Greek property, hazelnut, medlar, mulberry, pear, plum, rowan, southern coast, walnut
One late-autumn morning in 1782 Empress Catherine II sat in her study in the Winter Palace drinking coffee and contemplating the fate of Crimea. In her hand was a carefully-crafted letter from Prince Grigory Potemkin, president of the War College,…