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On History of Crimean Tatar Language

As was the case with most Turkic peoples, genesis of the Crimean Tatars spread through centuries and involved many tribes and peoples inhabiting the Crimean peninsula, including ancient Greeks, Alanes, Khazars, Seljuks, Pechenegs (Pincenates) and Cumans (Kipchaks, Pechenigs). From time immemorial,...

7 Outstanding Muslims that had an impact on the history and culture of modern Ukraine. Part 2 02/10/2019 Tugay Bey Commander and Statesman Tugay-bey (aprox. 1601 - 1651) occupied a special place in the centuries of political relationship between Ukraine and the Crimea. Being an active participant in the Ukrainian Liberation War, Tugai Bey, who had extensive military experience, became...	“A lot of tombs and mosques were located there…” 02/09/2019 In 1789, Russian troops and Cossacks from the Black Sea army under the general command of General Derybas O. captured the Ottoman fortress Khadjibey. From that moment, the life of the ancient city, connected with Islamic world history and culture, severely changed. Muslim Khadzhibey was established...
7 Outstanding Muslims Changed the History and Culture of Modern Ukraine. Part One 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...	From Poltava to Prut. From the History of the Ukrainian Cossacks and the Muslim Authorities’ Alliance 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...
The Crimean Tatars and their place in the history of Ukraine 30/11/2018 The Western Tatars are quite mysterious ethnic group. It is difficult to find information about them in school books. However, they were a part of the history of Ukraine and Eastern Europe as a whole. Oleksiy Savchenko, the senior museum researcher at the National Museum of the History of...	Muhammad Asad: From Lviv to Mecca. Part one 29/11/2018 At the beginning of the twentieth century, Lviv was a large multinational city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. German, Polish, Czech and, of course, Ukrainian with its specific Galician accent sounded on its streets and squares. This diversity arose after the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
Dental Care in Islamic Medical Science: Muhammad al-Aqkirmani (d. 1760) and his Risalah fi hukm al-Siwak 01/02/2018 Dental care in Islamic history Among the corpus of Islamic medical texts there are few which specially connect medicine and religious law (fiqh). These are the forms of treatment mentioned in basic Islamic texts of the Qur’an and Sunnah. One of them is the usage of Siwak or Miswak...	The struggle of the Bulgarian Muslims 16/12/2016 When considering the establishment of the Chief Mufti institution of Bulgaria, the difficulties imposed on this institution and after learning about the conditions that were needed to be overcome; after getting to acquaint with brave people who had to put all they ever had on the line, you get a...
The Muslim explorer who you should have learned in school 20/07/2016 We all know names of western explorers like Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Columbus and others who have put their names in the history of ocean and sea exploration. When I was a little girl in primary and secondary school, my teachers told me about their important contributions and...	The Mosques of the Southern Region of Ukraine in the Historical Documents and the Descriptions Made by Travelers 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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