Crimea
Americannoun
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the Crimea, a peninsula in southeastern Ukraine, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
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a former autonomous republic of the Soviet Union, later a region of Ukraine. About 10,000 sq. mi. (25,900 sq. km).
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As a former part of the Russian empire, Crimea was one of the strongholds of opposition to the Soviet government after the Russian Revolution.
It was occupied by German troops from 1941 to 1945.
The Crimean War of the 1850s, fought between Russian forces and the allied armies of Britain, France, Turkey, and Sardinia, was the scene of the battle described in “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”
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- Crimean adjective
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Ten years earlier, his predecessor Stalin had deported Crimea's Tatar population, so the majority population was ethnic Russian.
From BBC
On Sunday, he offered a new detail, saying that the Crimea operation took place before SpaceX received a sanctions exemption approval from the U.S. government to provide connectivity in Crimea.
Ukraine’s first declared use of the Flamingo was in August, against a Russian naval base in Crimea.
He is known for his love of leading from near the front lines, including in raids on Russia-occupied Crimea or logistics operations around the embattled town of Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s east.
Myrmekion dates back to the 6th Century BC, when the Ancient Greeks settled in Crimea as democracy was being born in Athens.
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