Tatar Power. Long ago it was the Tatars who ruled the region. Their history with Russia—a relationship of trade and cooperation, intermarriage and cultural exchange, but at times, significant ...

This grim tableau was the result of a centuries-long pattern. Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea from the Crimean Tatar Khanate in 1783, successive Russian regimes systematically eradicated ...

When the Red Army retook the peninsula in 1944, Joseph Stalin responded by ordering a police operation to sweep away the entire Crimean Tatar population (along with some Greeks and Germans) from the ...

Meanwhile, the Crimean Khanate’s Tatar nomads were pillaging the outskirts of Russia’s lands, which troubled the trade and agriculture of the Russian South greatly.

In 1783, after a series of wars, the Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate, the Muslim Tatar state that had ruled Crimea and part of the north littoral of the Black Sea for the three previous ...

The complex was built as the main residence for the monarchs of the Crimean Khanate—the state of the Crimean Tatar people—and was the political, religious, and cultural center of the Crimean ...

As the Tatar poet Şevqiy Bektöre wrote in 1922, ‘the whole world is a cemetery for Tatars.’” A Seditious and Sinister Tribe: The Crimean Tatars and their Khanate by Donald Rayfield, ...

When Nurie arrived in Bakhchysaray, the historic seat of the Crimean Tatar Khanate in the 1500s, she found that most Tartar homes vacated by the mass deportations of 1944 had since been occupied ...

The Khanate of Sibir was an ancient Turkic state on the territory of present-day Siberia. It was older than Russia, but in the end, it was absorbed and destroyed… Siberia is a region in North ...

KAZAN, Russia -- A Tatar activist has been fined after being detained at an annual commemoration of the conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports. Marat ...