the history of Islam in Ukraine

Moorish style gates
“A lot of tombs and mosques were located there…”
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...
The Crimean Tatars and their place in the history of Ukraine
30/11/2018
The Crimean Tatars and their place in the history of Ukraine
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...
About Muslims from Naddnipryanshchyna region
15/01/2018
About Muslims from Naddnipryanshchyna region
On the territory of modern Ukraine the interaction between Christian and Muslim civilizations has more than a thousand years of history. It is generally believed that on these lands Khazars were the first Muslims. Islam began to spread in the Khazar Kaganate after the Arab-Khazar wars in the first...
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