Annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire

Annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire
Painting by Ivan Aivazovsky: Arrival of Catherine II in Feodosia
Date19 April [O.S. 8 April] 1783
LocationCrimea
OutcomeCrimean Khanate annexed by Russian Empire

The territory of the Crimean Khanate was annexed by the Russian Empire on 19 April [O.S. 8 April] 1783.[1] The period before the annexation was marked by Russian interference in Crimean affairs, a series of revolts by Crimean Tatars, and Ottoman ambivalence. The annexation began 134 years of rule by the Russian Empire, which was ended by the revolution of 1917. The annexation resulted in the end of the Crimean slave trade, which had been one of the major slave trades from Europe for centuries.[2]

After changing hands several times during the Russian Civil War, Bolshevik rule was established in Crimea in 1921, with the peninsula becoming part of the Russian SFSR and then USSR a year later. In 1954, it was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR, which became the independent Ukraine in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Russian Federation annexed the Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and the mainland territories of the former Crimean Khanate in September 2022. However, these annexations are not recognised internationally.[3][4]

  1. ^ M. S. Anderson (December 1958). "The Great Powers and the Russian Annexation of the Crimea, 1783–4". The Slavonic and East European Review. 37 (88): 17–41. JSTOR 4205010.
  2. ^ Roşu, Felicia (2021). Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900 – Forms of Unfreedom at the Intersection Between Christianity and Islam. Studies in Global Slavery, Volume: 11. Brill. p. 173-176
  3. ^ Aglaya Snetkov (2014). Russia's Security Policy Under Putin: A Critical Perspective. Routledge. p. 163. ISBN 978-1136759680.
  4. ^ Casey Michel (4 March 2015). "The Crime of the Century". The New Republic. Retrieved 2 March 2016.

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