Crimea

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Tauridian Republic of Crimea

Conventional short name:
Local:
English:	Crimea
Cities:
Capital:	Sebastopol
Other:
Area:	12,301 sq. mi. (26,945 sq. km.)
Population:	3,185,461 (2002)
Independence:	from Russia
Date:	March 1918

All we know about the Crimea, is that it is a melting pot of Greeks, Turks, Mongolians, Crimean Goths, Crimean Tatars, Russians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Germans, and Yiddish-speaking Jews.

Contents 1 History 2 Geography 2.1 Borders 3 Octogram symbol

History

The Crimea became an independent state in March 1918, when the Tauridan Soviet Republic was proclaimed. Unlike *here*, where it was ended on 30 April 1918 and incorporated into Russia, the T.S.R. survived, mainly because the White Armies had to put all their efforts on conquering Moscow from the Bolsheviks, and because Ukraine acted as a buffer state. However, during the Second Great War it was first occupied by Germany and then by Russia. After the war, the Crimea remained an independent state only on paper, while it was ruled by a pro-Russian, SNORist puppet government. This government was overthrown in 1989.

Geography

Borders

North: Ukraine. West and South: Black Sea East: Russia.

Octogram symbol

This symbol comes from a gate at Mangup, a fortress built by Greeks and used by Goths and Turkic Kipchaks. [1] It has become Crimea's unifying national symbol, representing the idea of one land containing many cultures. Probably it belongs on a host of flags, seals, roundels, and military uniforms that still need to be designed.