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In 1783, Catherine II annexed the Crimean Khanate, then an independent Crimean state only a few years after occupying the Ukrainian lands of the Zaporizhzhian Sich. Following the seizures she began to ...

The khanate was now declining; sultans appointed and executed khans as Russian raids destroyed Crimean cities, libraries and wealth. In 1695-96, the young tsar Peter the Great marched south ...

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 ...

In 1784, a year after he had successfully managed the annexation of what had been the Crimean Khanate, Potemkin fortified and populated a recently opened port that he renamed Sevastopol.

The Crimean Khanate was essentially the last fragment of the once all-powerful empire of Genghis Khan and was ruled by his descendants. And the Moscow tsars paid tribute to the Crimean leaders ...

Before that, it was connected via the Crimean Khanate (until 1783) and the Tsarist Empire’s Taurida Governorate (1802–1917) to the territory of today’s southern Ukrainian mainland.

Palaces and ports The quasi-independent Crimean Khanate was one of the most powerful and wealthy states in Eastern Europe, with splendid palaces and thriving port cities.

Russian shelling hits Ukrainian church in Kherson that held the remains of Catherine the Great advisor Prince Grigory Potemkin until last year.