History of Crimea. A short story of a long journey

From taurus, tribal unions and the first ancient cities to deportations, repressions and finally occupation. In her book, historian Gulnara Abdulaeva describes the thousand-year history of Crimea — from ancient times to today. She introduces us to the Crimean Tatars, Karaites and Krymchaks, tells us who the Urums were and how the Crimean Khanate ceased to exist.

How did the Black Lake become the Black Sea, what language did the indigenous peoples of Crimea speak, and what was the relationship between the Cossacks and the Crimean Tatars? How Russia conquered Crimea and rewrote history, resorted to terror, hunger, deportation...

The historian writes a kind of biography of Crimea, telling what it was like and how we ended up at this point in our history.

Gulnara Abdulaeva is a historian (specialization in the history of Crimea and the Crimean Tatars). Presenter and author of historical programs on the ATR channel, Krym.Realii and others.

She lived in Crimea until 2014, after the occupation of the peninsula she moved to Kyiv.