The Crimean Tatars and the Ottomans

Niki GAMM

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Crimean Tatar refugees. By Carlo Bossoli

Crimea has occupied the headlines for weeks now and while Russia has proclaimed it to be a part of Russia, few realize that it was closely connected with the Ottoman Empirefrom the 15th to the 18th century. 

The Crimean peninsula has been occupied by humans ever since prehistoric times with abundant archaeological evidence to back this up. The Crimea was occupied by Scythians, Greeks, Romans and Byzantines until the Mongol invasion in the mid-13th century. The Genoese then took over the settlements that Venice had set up on the peninsula as part of its trade in the Black Sea.

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