Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most overlooked parts of Ukraine is its diversity. The Crimean Tatars – a national minority native to Crimea and ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of Crimea on March 18, he highlighted the area’s sacred history, invoking the tenth-century conversion of Vladimir the Great to ...

The territory of the Crimean Tatar khanate she annexed included both the Crimean peninsula and the adjacent steppeland of today’s southern Ukraine, which stretches along the shores of the Black Sea ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Suspended like a jewel from the north coast of the Black Sea, the Crimean peninsula is now at the fulcrum of ...

BAKHCHYSARAI, Crimea—Guliver Altın loves old maps. He loves the crudely drawn outlines of continents and oceans, the regions of bright green and red and yellow—shapes and colors moving across the ages ...

The history of Tatar people in China dates from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), when the Tatar tribe was ruled by the nomadic Turkic Khanate in northern China. As this state fell into decline, the Tatar ...

There are about 4,890 Tatars in China, most of whom live in Yining, Tacheng and Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Their history in China dates from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), when the ...