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The upheavals and ethnic cleansing of the 20th century vastly changed Crimea's ethnic composition. In 1944, 200,000 Crimean Tatars were deported from Crimea to Central Asia and Siberia, along with 70,000 Greeks and 14,000 Bulgarians and other nationalities.
Crimea [a] (/ k r aɪ ˈ m iː ə / ⓘ kry-MEE-ə) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukraine .
The main ethnic groups that inhabited the Crimea at various times and took part in the formation of the Crimean Tatar people are Tauri, Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, Ancient Greeks, Crimean Goths, Huns, Bulgars, Khazars, Pechenegs, Cumans, Italians. The consolidation of this diverse ethnic conglomerate into a single Crimean Tatar people took ...
Ethnic maps of Crimea showing the percentage of Crimean Tatars in the peninsula by subdivision. The first map is based on data from the Russian Empire census (1897) − those who indicated Crimean Tatar as their native language, the second one is 1939 Soviet census before the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944, and the third from the 2014 ...
The Crimean Bulgarians (Bulgarian: кримски българи, krimski balgari) are a historical ethnic Bulgarian minority in Crimea, a peninsula in Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. As of 2014, there are officially 1,868 Bulgarians in Crimea, [ 1 ] although the leader of the Bulgarian community estimates up to 2,500 families ...
German map of Crimea, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1888. Later Mennonites began to move from Ukraine into Crimea. Details are vague but during the 19th century a "German hospital" and dispensary arose in the Simferopol suburb of Nowyj gorod (called Neustadt or new city—now this is Kyivskyi District of Simferopol). [1]
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Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Crimea" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Armenians in ...