Crimean Tatars represent often-overlooked part of Ukraine's Indigenous history . ... During the medieval period, the peninsula saw rule by the Khazar Empire, Byzantium, the Kyivan Rus, ...

The Crimean Tatars "first came on the map" around 1241, says Eric Lohr, when Batu Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, conquered the region, making it a strategic part of the Mongol empire and close ...

BAKHCHISARAY, Ukraine—The stone minarets of the 16th-century * Khan's Palace that dominate the skyline here, a city of about 50,000 a 30-minute bus ...

David Greene continues his reporting in the newest part of the Russian empire, Crimea. He visits a Muslim Tatar community as it celebrates a holiday, with a new Russia-appointed mayor.

Crimean Tatars have lived as part of the Russian Empire, as a vassal state to the Ottoman Empire, as a province of the Soviet Union and as an autonomous republic of Ukraine.

The Tatars have been in Crimea since at least the late 14th century.They came to the area as part of Genghis Khan’s army and stayed there after the Mongol Empire split up into the four khanates ...

The history of the Crimean Tatars has taught them to tread carefully. Periods of persecution and exodus, mainly at Russian hands, have characterized the Muslim ethnic minority’s story from at ...

This area included Siberia and parts of central Asia, including Mongolia and stretching as far south as Afghanistan. Because such an empire is not mentioned in history books, conspiracy theorists ...

During the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774, Crimea was probably Russia’s main goal. By 1771, Crimean Tatars refused to fight for Turkey, and the Ottoman leaders didn’t have enough military ...