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In English, the omission of the definite article ("Crimea" rather than "the Crimea") became common during the later 20th century. [citation needed]The spelling "Crimea" is from the Italian form, la Crimea, since at least the 17th century [3] and the "Crimean peninsula" becomes current during the 18th century, gradually replacing the classical name of Tauric Peninsula in the course of the 19th ...
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[16] [17] Following its occupation and annexation of Crimea, Russia recognized and maintained the existing status of the peninsula's 18 cities. [8] In 2019, Russian officials granted the settlement Balaklava, located in Sevastopol's Balaklava urban district, the status of a city, although still keeping it as part of Sevastopol.
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The total area of the peninsula is 2,830 square kilometres (700,000 acres), which is just over 10% of the total area of the Crimean peninsula. The southern coast of the Kerch peninsula is washed by the Black Sea and the Bay of Feodosia , to the east as a natural border serves the Strait of Kerch , while the northern shores are part of the ...
Batylyman [], a resort on the Southern Coast. The Southern Coast (Crimean Tatar: Yalı Boyu; Ukrainian: Півде́нний бе́рег, romanized: Pivdennyi bereg; Russian: Ю́жный бе́рег, romanized: Yuzhny bereg), also referred to as the Crimean Riviera, [1] is a geographic region located in southern Crimea, a region internationally recognised as part of Ukraine but currently ...
Its balmy beaches have been vacation spots for Russian czars and Soviet general secretaries. Now, as Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its 18th month, the Crimean Peninsula is again both a ...
The peninsula thus has 2,352,385 people (2007 estimate). Crimean Tatars, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority who in 2001 made up 12.10% of the population, [11] formed in Crimea in the late Middle Ages, after the Crimean Khanate had come into existence. The Crimean Tatars were forcibly expelled to Central Asia by Joseph Stalin's government