19/07/2019
People used to think the history of Ukraine started with the legendary personalities coming: Askold, Dir and Rurik. Volumes of historical and fiction literature are about these fairy-tale heroes, while real historical personalities are often overshadowed by ancient myths. For more than a thousand...
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23/03/2019
Any fortuity is a sword or reward.
Eastern proverb
On June 27 (July 8), 1709, several kilometers from Poltava, the battle took place, which changed the history of all Eastern Europe for a long time and, above all, the history of Ukraine. The allied Swedish-Ukrainian army was...
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25/12/2017
The event that gathered researchers from both all over Ukraine and abroad (Belarus, Turkey, Moldova and Azerbaijan) on 14 December in Kyiv, was International Research-to-Practice Conference “Muslim Heritage in Southern Ukraine: History, Culture and Religion”.
Most of the foreign guests arrived from...
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15/12/2017
An important event for theologists and religious studies experts, philosophers, historians, sociologists, representatives of religious and social organisations gathered in Kyiv on 14 December. Volodymyr Vernadskii Tavrian National University hosted the International Research-to-Practice Conference...
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15/08/2016
Many scientists have tried to answer the question: when the first Muslims appeared on the territory of the Crimean Island. This question is not about individual faithful, who certainly could live in the Crimea already in the early Middle Ages, but it is about the larger Muslim communities that...
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27/05/2016
If somebody makes the list of mosques that existed in the southern regions of Ukraine, no doubt that it will include more than one thousand Muslim religious places. Most of them were destroyed in the Russian-Turkish wars and the following annexation of territories that previously belonged to the...
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06/05/2016
Due to the latest researches, we know a lot about the cultural heritage of the so-called "Lithuanian Tatars" (Lipka Tatars). This ethnic group lived on the territory of modern Lithuania, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine in the XV century. There is a reason to believe that this ethnic group,...
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11/04/2016
On March 24, the leading scientists, as historians, regional ethnographers, archaeologists, religious scholars, public figures and representatives of religious organizations from Poland and Ukraine (Crimea, Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Donetsk) participated in a round table discussion devoted to the 350th...
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05/04/2016
On November 2, 1914, the Ottoman Empire entered the First World War on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Before that, the state had already experienced three military campaigns (the Italo-Turkish War, 1911-1912, and the two Balkan Wars, 1912-1913), two of which ended for the Ottoman Empire...
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01/04/2016
In 1812, Napoleon's expansion in Europe led to the next round of Franco-Russian confrontation. On June 12, the Grand Army began crossing of the border river Neman, entered the Russian Empire. It was clear from the very beginning of the war that the French Emperor planned not only to expand his...
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