In IIV century BC Kemmery tribes and Skiffs lived there. Tavrica was the first name of this Black Sea peninsula. People, who lived there in the I century BC called themselves Tavrs. At the end of VIII century AD Tatars came there and they called the peninsula Crimea. In there language it meant a bulwark with a dike. At the end of XV Crimea became a vassal of Turkey. As an outcome of Russian-Turkish War (1768-1774), on the 8th of April, year 1783, nearly 230 years ago Crimea became Russian land. As a result of a arbitrariness decision of Nikita Khrushchev (head of USSR 1953-1954) on the 19th of February, year 1954, nearly 60 years ago Crimea became Ukrainian.
![Crimea on the map of Europe](http://finoak.com/files/articles/european-country-mapgeographical.gif)
![The Crimean War (October 1853 – February 1856)](http://mrbelloblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/crimean_war_1853-6_map.jpg)
![The Crimean War Memorial](http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/3288967.jpg)
The Crimean War Memorial is a memorial in London that commemorates victory in the Crimean War. It is located on Waterloo Place, at the junction of Regent Street and Pall Mall, approximately one-quarter of the way from the Duke of York Column to Piccadilly Circus. It was unveiled in 1861 and consisted of the statues of three Guardsmen, with a female allegorical figure referred to as Honour. It was cast in bronze from the cannons captured at the siege of Sevastopol. The sculptor was John Bell.
![Crimean capital Sevastopol is on fire. Russians retreat.](http://www.artscroll.ru/Images/2008/r/Rubo_Frants_Alekseevich/000125.jpg)
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![Monument in Novorossijsk to Russian army retreating from Russia in exile in 1920](http://www.pravmir.ru/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/inY_XMoNAdo.jpg)
![Defending of Crimean capital Sevastopol 30th of October - 21st of November 1941. Russians and Ukrainians were fighting together against common enemy](http://rossiyanavsegda.ru/uploads/other/2013/04/21/ross_vektor_v_krim_istorii_-_deineka_-_oborona_sevastopolya,_1942.jpg)
![Photo compositions](http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/18332440/129269/129269_original.jpg)
![Sevastopol now](http://vkrimu.org/uploads/files/Sevastopol.jpg)
![Panorama museum in Sevastopol](http://virtual-sevastopol.ru/album/center/muzei_panorama.jpg)
![18 - 20 May 1944 Stalin accused Crimean Tatars in collaboration with nazi Germany](http://www.opoccuu.com/vysele1.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-1](http://www.imperia.ks.ua/middleware/filemanager/userfiles/%D0%A2%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B%20%D0%B2%20%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BC/2.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-2](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-58pIfRT5iis/Uef59F8KcfI/AAAAAAAALv8/K8dsopyq4Uw/s1600/DSC_9776.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-3](http://sputnikipogrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/plyazhi-1.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-4](http://my-krym.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Kazantip-Z19-popovka-mirnyj_5120.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-5](http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/1488921.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-6](http://www.alushta.org/img/pb/2006.09.24_14.48.34_3ec9.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-7](http://lenta-ua.net/uploads/posts/2014-03/1394374729_krym.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-8](http://crimzapadny.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/sent-0021.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-9](http://econet.ru/media/117/kindeditor/image/201211/20121110185719.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-10](http://lenta-ua.net/uploads/posts/2014-02/1393528919_vengriya-rekomenduet-svoim-grazhdanam-vozderzhatsya-ot-poezdok-v-krym.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-11](http://crimealand.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%BA%D0%B03.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-12](http://www.look.com.ua/pic/201209/1600x1200/look.com.ua-24463.jpg)
![Beautiful Crimea today-14](http://rest.co.ua/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1339778655_1218380902_a-023-a-0259-fevral-2005.-rassvet.jpg)