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Crimean Tatars

Not to be confused with Volga Tatars.

Crimean Tatars
qırımtatarlar, qırımlılar
Flag of Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatars in traditional clothes at the Hıdırlez festival
Total population
c. 720,000
Regions with significant populations
Ukraine
  • Autonomous Republic of Crimea
  • Kherson Oblast
  • Zaporizhzhia Oblast
  • Lviv Oblast
  • Kyiv
248,193[a] - 300 000[1]
Uzbekistan239,000[2]
Turkey
  • Eskişehir Province
    		• 150,000
    Romania24,137[3]
    Russia
  • Krasnodar Krai
    		• 2,449[a][4]
    Bulgaria1,803[5]
    Kazakhstan1,532[6]
    United States500–1,000[7]
    Languages
    Religion
    Sunni Islam
    Related ethnic groups
    Urums[8] • Crimean Karaites • Lipka Tatars • Krymchaks • Crimean Roma • Dobrujan Tatars • Kumyks • Balkars • Karachays • Turks[9] • Nogais Volga Tatars •
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    Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar: qırımtatarlar, къырымтатарлар) or Crimeans (Crimean Tatar: qırımlılar, къырымлылар) are a Turkic ethnic group and nation indigenous to Crimea. The formation and ethnogenesis of Crimean Tatars occurred during the 13th–17th centuries, uniting Cumans with other peoples who had inhabited Crimea since ancient times and gradually underwent Tatarization, including Ukrainian Greeks, Italians, Ottoman Turks, Goths, Sarmatians, and many others.[10][11]

    Crimean Tatars constituted the majority of Crimea's population from the time of ethnogenesis until the mid-19th century, and the largest ethnic population until the end of the 19th century.[12][13] Russia attempted to purge Crimean Tatars through a combination of physical violence, intimidation, forced resettlement, and legalized forms of discrimination between 1783 and 1900. From Russia's annexation of Crimea in 1783 to 1800, between 100,000 and 300,000 Crimean Tatars emigrated.

    While Crimean Tatar cultural elements were not completely eradicated under the Romanov dynasty, the Crimean Tatars were almost completely driven from the Crimean peninsula under the Soviets.[14] Almost immediately after retaking of Crimea from Axis forces, in May 1944, the USSR State Defense Committee ordered the deportation of all of the Crimean Tatars from Crimea, including the families of Crimean Tatars who had served in the Soviet Army. The deportees were transported in trains and boxcars to Central Asia, primarily to Uzbekistan. The Crimean Tatars lost 18–46 percent of their population as a result of the deportations.[15] Starting in 1967, a few were allowed to return and in 1989 the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union condemned the removal of Crimean Tatars from their motherland as inhumane and lawless, but only a tiny percent were able to return before the full right of return became policy in 1989.

    The Crimean Tatars have been members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) since 1991.[16] The European Union and international indigenous groups do not dispute their status as an indigenous people and they have been officially recognized as an indigenous people of Ukraine as of 2014.[17][18] The current Russian administration considers them a "national minority", but not an indigenous people,[19][20] and continues to deny that they are titular people of Crimea, even though the Soviet Union considered them indigenous before their deportation and the subsequent dissolution of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Crimean ASSR).[21][22][23][24] Today, Crimean Tatars constitute approximately 15% of the population of Crimea.[25] A Crimean Tatar diaspora remains in Turkey and Uzbekistan.


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    25. ^ In the 2014 census, many of those who indicated the nationality "Tatar" in the census were actually Crimean Tatars.

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