The qalga was the title for the second person after a khan in the Crimean Khanate hierarchy, he said. The position was established in 1486. A khan appointed a qalga after his succession to the ...

Among them was Dzhemilev, who settled in Bakhchisaray, the former capital of the Crimean Khanate which ruled the peninsula before Imperial Russia annexed it in 1783. He continued fighting for Crimean ...

The Russian despot had taken control of the Ottoman-allied Crimean Khanate in 1774, absorbed the peninsula into the empire, and begun steadily demolishing its Tatar presence to make way for ...

During the Crimean War of 1853-56, a London printing house compiled one artist's paintings of Crimean towns and landscapes to ...

As these poems clearly show, Mickiewicz was enthralled by the legacy of the Crimean Khanate, a once powerful state run by the Crimean Tatar khans, which for centuries had retained close political ...

Moldavia and the Crimean Khanate) existed from 1478–1792. More than two million Ukrainians now live in Poland. The Vietnamese community numbers around 60,000. Belarusians, Georgians, Indians and ...

Satellite images exclusively obtained by CNN show three destroyed Russian jets and damaged buildings at Belbek airbase in occupied port city of Sevastopol on Wednesday. The hardware losses come ...

A pair of MiG-31 fighter jets were "destroyed" and an S-400 air defense system was damaged after Ukraine attacked the Belbek military airfield close to the western Crimean city of Sevastopol ...

Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) caused by the CCHF virus, a member of the family Bunyaviridae, genus Nairovirus, is a tick-borne acute viral hemorrhagic fever with a high case–fatality ...

The mid-nineteenth century's Crimean War is frequently dismissed as an embarrassment, an event marred by blunders and an occasion better forgotten. In The Crimean War and its Afterlife Lara Kriegel ...

Among them was Dzhemilev, who settled in Bakhchisaray, the former capital of the Crimean Khanate which ruled the peninsula before Imperial Russia annexed it in 1783. He continued fighting for ...