1. History of Crimea

2. Early and Antique history
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12-7 century BC — Cimmerians (Tauri)
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7 century BC — Scythians
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5-1 century BC — Greek colonies (trade
routes)
1 c. BC — 3 c. AC — Roman colonies

3. Middle ages
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Goths (AD 250), Huns (376), Bulgars (4th–8th
century), Khazars (8th century)
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state of Kievan Rus' (10th–11th centuries)
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Byzantine Empire (1016)
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Kipchaks (the Kumans) (1050)
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Mongols (1237).

4. Middle ages
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13-15 centuries - Republic of Genoa
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1441–1783 - Crimean Khanate
Map of Crimea,15th century

5. Crimean Khanate and Ottoman
Empire (1441 - 1783)
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1475 — union of Khanate with Ottoman
Empire, fall of Genoese colonies
Slave trade, wars with Ukrainian Cossaks.

6. Crimea in the Russian Empire:
1783–1917
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1774 - Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca between
Russia and Ottoman Empire. Crimean
independence.
8.04.1873 - Annexation of Crimea by Russia

7. Crimea — part of Ukraine in 1918-19

8. Deportation
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On 18 May 1944, the
entire population of the
Crimean Tatars were
forcibly deported to
Central Asia by Joseph
Stalin's Soviet
government.
An estimated 46% of the
deportees died from
hunger and disease.
They were allowed to
come back in 1989 only

9. Crimea — part of Ukraine again
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On 19 February 1954,
the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of
the Soviet Union
issued a decree
transferring the
Crimean Oblast from
the RSFSR to the
Ukrainian SSR.

10. Ethnic groups in different time:
Tatars — green; Russians — red; Ukrainians - yellow

11. Crimea within independent Ukraine
With the collapse of the
Soviet Union, Crimea
became part of the
newly independent
Ukraine. Independence
was supported by a
referendum in all
regions of Ukrainian
SSR, including Crimea.
54% of the Crimean
voters supported
independence.