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A Khanate For Sale: Tatars Fear Crimea's Pull Toward Russia

CNN's Diana Magnay finds Crimea's minority Muslim Tatars fearful of a return to Russian control.

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Crimean Tatar Leader Tells Putin Secession Would Break Pact (nbcnews, March 12, 2014)

A Crimean Tatar leader told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that the secession of Crimea from Ukraine to join Russia would violate an international treaty in which Russia, Britain and the United States vowed to keep Ukraine intact.

Putin spoke by phone with Mustafa Dzhemilev, a senior figure in the Crimean Tatar community, in what may have been an effort to ease their concerns over a referendum on Sunday in which Crimeans will be asked whether they want to join Russia.

Many Crimean Tatars, who make up about 12 percent of the population of the Black Sea peninsula, are strongly opposed to falling under Russia's control. Exiled en masse by the Soviet authorities during World War Two, many Crimean Tatars are very wary of Russia.

Their leader has called for a boycott of the plebiscite....

Turkey mobilizes for Crimea after 160 years (al-Monitor, March 4, 2014)

The Crimean peninsula, scene of one of most important military struggles of the last years of the Ottoman Empire, has made a surprising comeback to the world scene after the events in Ukraine. Russia's moves of sending troops to Crimea, in an effort to sever it from Ukraine, prompted Ankara and Western capitals to react. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutolgu, who went to Kiev last Friday, met with the former speaker of the Tatar National Assembly, Mustafa Abdulcemil Kirimoglu, and declared: If the term is appropriate, we are in 'mobilization' to defend the rights of our kin in Crimea by doing whatever is necessary..... Turkey believes that the rights of the Crimean Tatars, with whom it has been in close relations with since the first days of the republic, will be better preserved not under Russian control but within the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Turkey's Agency for Cooperation and Coordination (TIKA) and other institutions had established close ties with the Crimean Tatars who had been trying to reassert their identities....


Crimean Khanate (Wikipedia)


Crimean-Nogai raids into East Slavic lands (Wikipedia)


Crimean Tatars (Wikipedia)


Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Wikipedia)


Sürgün: The Crimean Tatars' deportation and exile


SLAVE TRADE IN THE EARLY MODERN CRIMEA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CHRISTIAN,MUSLIM, AND JEWISH SOURCES.
MIKHAIL KIZILOV (academia.edu, Mikhail Kizilov)


Uni Tuebingen, academia.edu, Mikhail Kizilov Papers

Касимовские Сказы

Могут ли мирно и дружно сосуществовать в одном городе две разных религии и культуры? Наш фильм рассказывает о старинном городке Касимове в Рязанской области России. Когда-то он назывался Городец-Мещерский и был основан в 1152 году князем Юрием Долгоруким как крепость для защиты юго-восточных границ княжества от кочевников. Свое не очень русское название город приобрел в 15 веке от имени хана Касима, получившего город в кормление от великого московского князя Василия Темного.
«Касимов — это царство, но царство заколдованное. Он никому с первого раза не открывается, никому» — утверждает один из героев нашего фильма. Но мы попробуем заглянуть в это прекрасное «заколдованное царство».
Документальный фильм из цикла «Провинциальные музеи России»
2015 г., 26 минут, автор и режиссер Мария Волчанская

Why Music Matters: Theodore Levin delivers the 24th Faculty Presidential Lecture

Theodore Levin, Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music, presented the annual Faculty Presidential Lecture on Tuesday, February 28. His lecture, entitled Why Music Matters.

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The Tatars (; Tatar: татарлар; Russian: татары) are a Turkic-speaking peoples living mainly in Russia and other Post-Soviet countries. The name Tatar first appears in written form on the Kul Tigin monument as ???????????? (Ta-tar). Historically, the term Tatars was applied to anyone originating from the vast Northern and Central Asian landmass then known as the Tartary, which was dominated by various mostly Turco-Mongol semi-nomadic empires and kingdoms. More recently, however, the term refers more narrowly to people who speak one of the Turkic languages.
The Mongol Empire, established under Genghis Khan in 1206, allied with the Tatars. Under the leadership of Genghis Khan's grandson Batu Khan (c. 1207–1255), the Mongols moved westwards, driving with them many of the Mongol tribes toward the plains of Kievan Rus'. The Tatar clan still exists among the Mongols, Hazaras and Uzbeks.The largest group by far that the Russians have called Tatars are the Volga Tatars, native to the Volga region (Tatarstan and Bashkortostan), who for this reason are often also simply known as Tatars. They compose 53% of population in Tatarstan. Their language is known as the Tatar language. As of 2002 they had an estimated population around 5 million in Russia as a whole. There is a common belief that Russians and Tatars are closely intermingled, illustrated by the famous saying scratch any Russian just a little and you will discover a Tatar underneath and the fact that a number of noble families in Tsardom of Russia and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had Tatar origins; however, genetics show that majority of Russians form a cluster with Northern and Eastern Europeans (especially Belarusians, Ukrainians and Poles), and are relatively far from Tatar peoples. In modern-day Tatarstan, however, Russian-Tatar marriages are very common.Current day Tatars comprise a range of physical appearances, from Mongoloid to Caucasoid.