Crimea

See also: crimea

English

Map of Crimea (the Crimean peninsula).
The Crimean Khanate in 1600.

Etymology

Via Italian Crimea, from Crimean Tatar Qırım.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹaɪˈmiːə/

Proper noun

Crimea

  1. A peninsula which juts southwards out of the Ukrainian mainland (to which it is connected by the Isthmus of Perekop) into the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
  2. The Crimean Khanate, which for much of its history controlled most of the Crimean peninsula and various adjacent areas of the mainland.
    • 1987, Robert M. Croskey, Muscovite Diplomatic Practice in the Reign of Ivan III, page 96:
      According to Zimin, this individual was in the service of Prince Fedor Vasili'evich Riazanskii as early as 1498, two years after his service on the embassy to the Crimea.
    • 1995, Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years' War 1630-1635 →ISBN, page 73
      On its return journey in 1633 the Tatar embassy was arrested by the Muscovite government, which was already at war with the Crimea, and only after several months was it released as a result of an appeal by Sweden[.]
    • 2004, Andreas Kappeler, Die Geschichte Russlands im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert →ISBN, page 371
      As late as 1665, the Crimea's demand for continued and increased tribue from Moscow was one of the conditions leading to a peace treaty between a khan and tsar („kaznu v Krym prodolzhat' prisylat' s pribyl'iu“). Notwithstanding Moscow's rhetorical exercises, the Russian government was acutely aware that as long as Russia's military force remained ineffective against the Crimea, peace with Crimea could only be purchased.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Crimea.

Usage notes

Often with the article: the Crimea.

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Catalan

Proper noun

Crimea f

  1. Crimea

Italian

Etymology

From Crimean Tatar Qırım

Proper noun

Crimea f

  1. Crimea

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Spanish

Proper noun

Crimea f

  1. Crimea

Derived terms

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