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Crimea

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Cri·me·a  (kr-m, kr-)
A region and peninsula of southern Ukraine on the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. In ancient times it was colonized by Greeks and Romans and later overrun by Ostrogoths, Huns, and Mongols. Conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1475, the area was annexed by Russia in 1783. The peninsula was the scene of the Crimean War (1853-1856), in which a coalition of English, French, and Turkish troops defeated the Russians, although Crimea itself did not change hands. It became an autonomous Russian republic in 1921 and a Ukrainian oblast in 1954.

Cri·mean adj.

Crimea [kraɪˈmɪə]
n
(Placename) a peninsula and autonomous region in the Ukraine between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov: a former autonomous republic of the Soviet Union (1921-45), part of the Ukrainian SSR from 1945 until 1991 Russian name Krym
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.CrimeaCrimea - a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
Crimean War - a war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia; 1853-1856
Ukraine, Ukrayina - a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century
Sebastopol, Sevastopol - a city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea
Yalta - a resort city in Crimea in the southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; site of the Allied conference between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in February 1945
Translations
Crimea [kraɪˈmɪə] NCrimea f
Crimea
n (Geog) → Krim f; (inf: = Crimean War) → der Krimkrieg


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THE CRIMEA, GREECE, AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS OF INTEREST.
In a suffering and weary voice he was saying something to Tikhon, speaking of the Crimea and its warm nights and of the Empress.
Men who had not seen each other for years, some from the Crimea, some from Petersburg, some from abroad, met in the rooms of the Hall of Nobility.
 
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