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The Parish of Alma was created surrounding the Village in 1856, commemorating the then-recent Battle of Alma during the Crimean war.
Arthur Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon (1824–1901), officer of the Royal Navy during the Crimean War, later First Sea Lord
According to an alternative theory, the daughter of Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate was another consort of Selim I known as Ayşe Hatun, consequently the stepmother of Suleiman the Magnificent.
Baherove Air Base was 71st ground Air Force that was established in the Crimean village of Baherove in accordance with the Resolution of the "Council of Ministers of USSR" on August 21, 1947 with the aim of aviation security for air nuclear testing and refinement of technical means of delivering nuclear warheads, which are mainly at the time could only be used by aviation.
George Boudier (1820–1899), English cricketer and Anglican priest, served as a military chaplain in the Crimean War.
The old Garrison Church in Military Road was a former Crimean War era hospital, similar to those shipped in prefabricated sections to Florence Nightingale at Scutari and Balaklava.
In "The Crimean Tatars: the diaspora experience and the forging of a nation" By Brian Glyn Williams they quote Vozgrin as saying; 'In all probability their descendents are the Tatars of a series of villages in the Crimea, who are sharply delineated from the inhabitants of neighboring villages by their tall height and other features characteristic of Scandinavians.
In the early 1990s, after nearly five decades in exile, approximately 250,000 Crimean Tatars decided to return to Crimea, officially a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic since 1954.
In 1914, it was pulled down and moved to make room for the statues of Florence Nightingale and Sidney Herbert who was Secretary at War during the Crimean War.
They are descendants of George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, famous for his role in the Crimean War, leading the Cavalry Division which included the Heavy Brigade and the Light Brigade, the latter of which was involved in the heroic, if futile, Charge of the Light Brigade.
The cemetery was first established for British soldiers from the Crimean War, who died mostly as the result of cholera epidemic in the first organized military hospital in modern history created by Florence Nightingale.
The northwest wing of the 19th century Selimiye Barracks, which was transformed into a military hospital during the Crimean War, was the place where nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale cared wounded and infected British soldiers.
Karaim language, (Crimean dialect: къарай тили, Trakai dialect: karaj tili, Turkish dialect: karay dili, traditional Karaim name lashon kedar (Hebrew: לשון קדר - «language of the nomads») is a Turkic language with Hebrew influences, in a similar manner to Yiddish or Ladino
When members of the Armenian diaspora moved from the Crimean peninsula to the Polish-Ukrainian borderland in the end of the 13th century, they brought Kipchak, their adopted Turkic language with them.
In 2004, he initiated and hosted the International Symposium "Biology, Phylogeny, Molecular Biology, and Genetics of Zygaenidae" at the Crimean State Medical University.
A few hundred Krymchaks still clinging to their Crimean identity live in the United States and Israel: animator Ralph Bakshi is the most famous of these.
Pavel Maksutov (1825 – 1882), Imperial Russian Navy rear-admiral, prince, hero of Crimean War and 15th governor of Taganrog
The burial of Mamai was found by the native Crimean and famous Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky.
The official language of the principality of Theodoro was Greek, but the Gothic language remained in use in private homes at least until the 18th century (Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq in the 16th century reported having had a conversation with two Goths in Constantinople, and left a Gothic-Latin glossary with about a hundred Gothic words), but it is unknown for how long the Gothic language survived as liturgical language in the Crimean Gothic church.
Sir William Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th Baronet (1834–1897)was educated at Harrow School and fought in the Crimean War with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, where he won the Victoria Cross.
In 1864 a Portland stone memorial was erected, dedicated to the members of the Army Medical Department who died in the Crimean War.
The Kalmyks expelled the Nogais who fled to the northern Caucasian plains and to the Crimean Khanate, areas under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
Noman Çelebicihan (Numan Çelebi Cihan) (1885–1918) was a Crimean Tatar politician, lawyer, Mufti of Crimean Moslems, and writer.
He is famous for his sea sorties on Crimea and Turkey and in 1616 captured Caffa (Theodosia) on the Crimean peninsula, the largest center of the slave trade.
In 1691, at the age of about nineteen, she was captured by Crimean Tatars during one of their frequent raids into this region and taken as a slave, probably first to the Crimean city of Kaffa, a major centre of the slave trade, then to Istanbul, and was selected for the Sultan’s harem.
In the peace conference at Paris for the Crimean War, Cavour attempted to bring attention to efforts for Italian unification.
On November 15, 1943 the Stavka ordered the Coastal army reformed, from command elements of the North Caucasian Front, assigned troops from the 56th Army, and to be the assault army in Kerch–Eltigen Operation to establish a bridgehead on the Crimean peninsula.
Guy Arnold (Editor), John Worronoff (Editor), Historical Dictionary of the Crimean War
These forces included the 2nd Guards Maritime Missile Aviation Division (Gvardeyskoye, Crimean Oblast), with three regiments of maritime attack Tu-22M2s (5th, 124th at Gvardeskoye, Crimean Oblast, and the 943rd at Oktyabrskoye?), and the 30th independent Maritime Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Saki-Novofedorovka, Crimean Oblast) of Tu-22Ps.
The Siege of Sevastopol was the subject of Crimean soldier Leo Tolstoy's Sebastopol Sketches and the subject of the first Russian feature film, Defence of Sevastopol.
He returned to his estates in 1649 but the massacre of Polish army by the Cossacks and Crimean Tatars at Batoh (Battle of Batih) in 1652 forced him to evacuate again, this time to his estates in Volhynia.