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A Crimean Tatar, she is part of the peninsula’s indigenous population ... In 1783, Catherine II annexed the Crimean Khanate, then an independent Crimean state only a few years after occupying the ...

Built on an ancient site, the Kazan Kremlin dates from the Muslim period of the Golden Horde and the Kazan Khanate. It was conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1552 and became the Christian See of the ...