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- Northern peninsula on the Black Sea, a region
- of Ukraine Republic, USSR, from 1954. area
- 27,000 sq km/10,425 sq mi capital Simferopol
- towns Sevastopol, Yalta features mainly
- steppe, but southern coast is a holiday
- resort products iron, oil recent history
- under Turkish rule 1475-1774, a subsequent
- brief independence was ended by Russian
- annexation 1783. It was the republic of
- Taurida 1917-20 and the Crimean Autonomous
- Soviet Republic from 1920 until occupied by
- Germany July 1942-May 1944. It was then
- reduced to a region, its Tatar people being
- deported to Uzbekistan for collaboration.
- Although they were exonerated 1967 and some
- were allowed to return, others were forcibly
- re-exiled 1979.
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