Crimea

Crimea

Crimea ranks 4,250th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sanjō, Niigata, Wałbrzych, and Yenakiieve. Memorable people born in Crimea include Baibars, Meñli I Giray, and Sahib I Giray. Memorable people who died in Crimea include Hacı I Giray, Mamai, and Kaykaus II. Crimea has been the birth place of many politicians and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels. Crimea is located in .

Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukraine. To the east, the Crimean Bridge, constructed in 2018, spans the Strait of Kerch, linking the peninsula with Krasnodar Krai in Russia. The Arabat Spit, located to the northeast, is a narrow strip of land that separates the Syvash lagoons from the Sea of Azov. Across the Black Sea to the west lies Romania and to the south is Turkey. The population is 2.4 million, and the largest city is Sevastopol. The region has been under Russian occupation since 2014. Read more on Wikipedia