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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,...

In 12th century the land is first mentioned as Ukraine. Russia does not exist 28/04/2016 For the first time Ukraine was mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle. Not Little Rus’ or something else, but Ukraine. Nobody heard about Moscow and Russia at that time. Learn more impressive...	How did the Burial Places of Muslim Soldiers Appear in Galicia 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...
Which way Crimean-Tatars fought against Napoleon’s Army 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...	When did Islam came to Ukraine? 04/03/2016 Is it not instructive to them, how many generations before them We destroyed, in whose settlements they walk? Surely in that are signs for people of understanding (Quran 20:128). When did Islam begin to spread in Ukraine? This question had been a subject of debate for a long time....
The Secrets of Muslim Odessa 02/02/2016 Written during the domination of the Russian Empire, the official history of Odessa claims that The Empress Catherine II issued a rescript of the founding of the town in 1794. So, the first piles were pitched on September 2. This day is considered the birthday of the sea capital of Ukraine. The...	Role of Muslims in the Straggle for Independence of Ukraine 19/01/2016 The history of the struggle for independence of Ukraine has a lot of good and bad pages. In 1918, the first time in two hundred years, Ukrainians could create their own state - Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR). But, from the first days of its existence, thousands of patriots had to defend the...
History of "Muslim Khazaria" on the territory of modern Ukraine 09/10/2015 The first evidences of existing of Islam on the lands of present-day Ukraine related to the Khazar Khaganate, arisen in the VII century. The birth of Khazaria issued from the collapse of the Western Turkic Khaganate. Initially, the territory of the new state was the area of the North Caucasus and...	Giray's Faith — the roots of moderate Islam of the Crimean Tatars are buried in the history of this people 29/07/2015 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...
Crimean Muslim Heritage. Crimean Tatar Prominent Scholars of XIV— XIX 08/10/2013 Information on numerous brilliant scholars of the Islamic world of Crimean Tatar origin, some of them playing leading roles in Jerusalem, Makkah and Madinah, is far from being well-known. Please find below the biographies of most famous scholars of Crimean Tatar origin. Zieddin Qirimiy...	Crimean Tatar Ramadan 27/08/2013 We offer our readers an interview with Khalil Dandalov, the resident of Vesyoloe village (Qutlaq) (Sudalskiy region, Crimea). Khalil-aga, born in 1931, had a difficult life. Born in Crimea, in the town Aiseres, he had to taste the war and occupation, and then - suffer the horrors of deportation as...

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