Brief history of Crimea

The book introduces the reader to the main milestones of the original and diverse history of Crimea. The authors, professional historians, tried in an accessible form to introduce the panorama of the centuries -old past peninsula - from the moment of the appearance of people of the Stone Age to this day.
The chapters of the book presents the stories related to the history of numerous ethnic groups of Crimea - Taurus, Scythians, Greeks, Armenians, Crimean Tatars, Karaites and many others, with their everyday life, culture and beliefs in the era of alternating conquests and influences from the largest states of the ancient and medieval world - Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Golden Horde, the Ottoman Empire. The key moments of the history of the New Age are highlighted - the war, in the epicenter of which Crimea was after changing the political situation at the end of the XVIII century. and access to the arena of the Russian Empire, ethnic migrations and relocations, the formation of the peninsula as a resort region. Considerable attention is paid to cultural and economic changes that Crimea survived in the XX century saturated with tragic conflicts.
The book is intended for the widest audience interested in the history of Crimea, its past and present.
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