of water dripped into a ball of flowers from a cold spring legend has it that there are the tears of a tartar king shared over the death of a beloved slave girl from the north who died before she was able to learn to love the tarkhan. located in the mountains above buck she serai is the thousand year old cave city of two foot cali the jewish fortress. it was inhabited by the car it s a jewish sect who fled to crimea from palestine and egypt in the twelfth century. the car ites led secluded lives here apart from other jewish communities. the
a rich culture in crimea having lived here since the eleventh century. it was here that they founded the first center of the armenian d.s.p. or on european soil. despite being resettled by catherine the great in the late eighteenth century and deported by stalin in one nine hundred forty four the armenian minority in crimea was never eradicated. today more than eleven thousand armenians live here. before. the armenian apostol the church is the oldest state church in the world. legend has it that the apostles brought christianity to the armenians seven hundred years ago .
russia s rise as a major european power. establishing sebastopol as the base of its black sea fleet enabled russia to control the key maritime links with the mediterranean. on her journey across the newly conquered lands in the south in seven hundred eighty seven catherine the great also visited crimea which was also known as the tower of peninsula. she was impressed by its oriental flair but she also observed backwardness and poverty. katherine had an advisor and a favorite prince gregory potemkin whom she appointed governor general of what was
a step within the framework of a single state and when one state is suddenly replaced by two independent states it s logical that both will stake a claim. time will pass and the relationship between the two countries will find a form roundabouts. but the most important thing is that the voices of the people who live here are heard just. in the eyes of most of its inhabitants much has changed for the good since russia annexed crimea for them a look back evokes little nostalgia. skop and sheesh that time and again throughout the history of crimea there have been efforts to establish an independent state and in that respect we can say that if crimea belongs to anyone who belongs to itself the.
a great deal that was positive but also much there was extremely negative. the fate of the crimean tartars in particular is without parallel after the communist revolution the crimean tartars had many opportunities to participate in the formation of the young soviet state. of course but during the second world war the nazis played them off against the other peoples in crimea. it was a political tactic and one of the tartars fell victim to. give us the illusion of when german occupation came to an end stalin accused the crimean tatars on mosques of collaboration and have been reported to central asia. was feeling. it was not until the late one nine hundred eighty s. that they were allowed to return to their homeland for three hundred years but she sariah was the capital of the state of the crimean tatars the crimean khanate. when