history of Crimea

Who are the Crimean Tatars
Whatever the changes they are facing now, it’s nothing more than a brief episode in the long history of the indigenous people of Crimea. Mighty empires have been clashing for Crimea since ancient times and each new winner believes he has secured his foot on this land forever...
Giray's Faith — the roots of moderate Islam of the Crimean Tatars are buried in the history of this people
29/07/2015
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The legend has it that Islam proliferated in Crimea owing to two associates of Prophet Muhammad Malik al-Ashtar and Ghazi Mansour as early as the 7th century A.D. Yet it is more likely that the peninsula turned Muslim owing to Turks rather than Arabs. It came as a result of a conquest in the 13th...
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