Interesting and Fun Facts about Crimea: (Fascinating and Cool Quick Facts)

1.Crimean Tatars were given autonomy over Crimea in 1992

Tatars, an ethnic group that defined Crimea as their homeland for most of the millennia, were given the option to declare independence from Ukraine in 1992. Due to the peninsula's limited resources and minority status, Crimean residents are instead part of Ukraine, which has local autonomy for native Tatars.

2.Crimea's name comes from the city of Qirim, which was the capital of the Golden Horde province of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.

3.Tatars made up 12% of the Crimea's population in 2001 and 55% before the Second World War

Most of the Crimean Tatars were deported to Eastern Russia after World War II on the orders of Joseph Stalin. This was done to increase Moscow's influence on the Crimean peninsula, a strategic maritime asset. When Ukraine declared its independence in 1991 and autonomy was granted to Crimea in 1992, thousands of Tatars returned to Crimea after being exiled in Russia for generations.

4.Until the 18th century, Crimea was a center for the slave trade to the Ottoman Empire.

5.In the Crimean War (1853-56), Ottoman Empire, United Kingdom and France  fought against Russia.

6.Russia Tries To Seperate Them

The Russian spelling of the word Crimean Tatar causes many controversies until today. According to the rules of Russian linguistics, the word Crimean Tatar (krımskotatarskiy / крымскотатарский) must have a contiguous correspondence, but in Russia this word is written with a dash (крымско-татарский). In Russian, there is a rule that if the conjunction "and" can be put between a difficult word, the word must be written with a hyphen. Thus, the Russians are deliberately trying to separate the Crimean and Crimean Tatars. In Ukraine, the word Crimean Tatar is written adjacent.

7.The Crimean Tatar language is also included in UNESCO's List of World Languages in Danger of Disappearance, which contains a total of 2,465 languages that are at risk of disappearing to varying degrees.

8.There is no "sex" category for both nouns and pronouns in the Crimean Tatar language.

9.A 18th century treaty shall return Crimea to Turkey in the event of independence

Great Empress Katerina in 1783 by a treaty which annexed Crimea from the Ottoman Empire, in case of losing control of the peninsula of Russia predicts will be extradited to Turkey.

10.Only seven countries consider Crimea as part of Russia
Countries recognizing the legitimacy of the Crimean independence referendum include Russia, Cuba and North Korea, all with a history of human rights violations and widespread corruption.