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2 unusual facts about Crimean Goths


Crimean Goths

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.

The last known record of the Goths in Crimea comes from the Archbishop of Mohilev; Stanisław Bohusz Siestrzeńcewicz circa 1780, who visited Crimea at the end of the 18th century, and noted the existence of people whose language and customs differed greatly from their neighbors and who he concluded must be "Goths".


Metropolitanate of Gothia

The Crimean Goths themselves were a remnant of the migration-era Gothic population of Oium.


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