From Ancient Greeks to Russian Annexation | Crimea's Forgotten History (Part I)

The Crimean Peninsula has a long, though, somewhat forgotten history. From Iron Age migrations of the Taurians (or Tauri) and Scythians, to Greek colonization, Ottoman suzerainty, the Russo-Turkish Wars, annexation by the Russian Empire in 1783, the Black Sea Fleet, WWI, mutiny onboard the Potemkin, and the Russian Civil War. At various times, people from Crimea tried securing their independence, such as with the establishment of the Crimean People's Republic in 1917 or the Crimean Regional Government just a year later in 1918. Often, however, they were caught between struggles by greater powers, like the Whites and Reds (i.e. Bolsheviks) in the previously mentioned Russian Civil War.
Of course, this is just part of the story and in PART II we'll further explore the Crimea's history in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:20 Taurians, Scythians, and Greeks
03:47 Crimean Khanate, Ottoman rule, and Russian annexation
04:59 Russo-Turkish Wars and the Black Sea Fleet
06:38 Mutiny onboard the Potemkin
08:34 Crimean People's Republic
10:05 Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic
10:35 German occupation and the Crimean Regional Government
11:46 Southern Russia intervention
12:31 Wrangel's Fleet and Red Terror
13:19 Conclusion
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⚠️ NOTE: Some of the information presented in this video has changed following Russian military action. Missiles, air strikes, and shelling have targeted Ukrainian military positions and infrastructure, Russian troops are in-country, and explosions have been reported in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and other Ukrainian cities. As the situation continues to evolve in Ukraine, we will provide updates on the channel in time.

[@williamvaux7500]

As a Crimean Tatar, I really appreciate this video. Kudos to you

[@GhostCountries]

Oh, that really means a lot! We also do have plans to explore the Crimean Khanate in a future video.

[@Qwerka]

Selam kardeşim! Şu an Türkiye'de misin?

[@vlach1234]

another video,another masterpiece

[@GhostCountries]

Thank you so much; I personally think our quality has improved with each video! Part II will deal more with Crimea's contemporary history and we're going to try fitting in some relevant KZbin Shorts too.

[@mimishimura6314]

Very informative! More and more people are getting worried about this region now and it’s good to know its history

[@GhostCountries]

Thank you Mimi; we'll be covering more of Crimea's contemporary history in part II and a few KZbin Shorts we have planned!

[@tinavalentino9713]

Wow another riveting episode. I enjoy the episodes more than the podcasts just as an fyi. Looks like the red terror isn’t a thing of the past 🙏

[@GhostCountries]

Thank you so much Tina; yeah, we'll actually be going into some other aspects of Crimea's more recent history - including the 2014 annexation by Russia - which definitely have relevancy with everything ongoing in Ukraine.

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

Besides completely glossing over Roman/Eastern Roman rule, this is a great video.

[@GhostCountries]

Thanks man; yeah, it's always difficult balancing what to include and not in a video, but we are planning to revisit Crimea's history in future videos, which more than likely will include a proper episode on the Principality of Theodoro.

[@numsexplore7194]

Such an interesting idea for a channel I subscribed and saved your videos to watch later again. Thank you for the information

[@GhostCountries]

Oh, thank you so much and welcome to the channel! We've got plenty more planned, including Crimea Part II and some new miniseries that'll be going up this month.

[@numsexplore7194]

@@GhostCountries can’t waiti🙏🏼 appreciate it

[@kirbyward2001]

Great video Very appropriate given the events of today

[@GhostCountries]

Thank you kirbyward2001, we actually began working on this episode a while back and then events unfolded as they did.

[@Theunknownpast_official]

Fantastic video man 10/10 your pronunciations are getting better especially when you pronounce maciej sulkiewicz. I will confess i did learn a lot of new stuff considering the addition I have over Eastern Europe 😂😂 if you see under BBC news, etc you will see bunch of uneducated people who have no idea what’s going it’s hilarious

[@GhostCountries]

Oh, thank you so much 🙌; pronunciations can always be somewhat hit or miss I think...hahaha, but glad you feel they're improving! We tried plenty of new things in terms of style/editing in the video that I think probably will become the norm in our videos going forward. The timing, though, was not planned; just crazy everything went down exactly when it did.

[@Theunknownpast_official]

@@GhostCountries It’s a pleasure seeing you improve overtime man. In a few years I will be known as the OG subscriber😂😂

[@GhostCountries]

@@Theunknownpast_official It's been cool to see your channel change too; honestly, I'm pretty interested to see how you'll intermix psychology in some future videos.

[@Theunknownpast_official]

@@GhostCountries I’m glad your looking forward to it🙌🏼

[@RichardLionheart12]

So Anglo-French fought Russian for Crimea interesting and Russia lost.

[@Historical_events]

Great video as always!

[@GhostCountries]

Thanks Historical_events 😄; glad you liked the video and be sure to check out part II once it's out!

[@mkmkmk9536]

Great, relevant video

[@GhostCountries]

Thank you so much Matt; be sure to check out part II when it goes up! We've also got a few KZbin Shorts planned concerning what's ongoing in Ukraine.

[@SoapheadPog]

Crimea historically is underraed, glad we learn somrthing new everyday

[@Thomas-fk3xl]

This is soo good you deserve way more subs

[@GhostCountries]

Hey, thanks; glad you found the channel; we are growing and finally nearing 1K!

[@MrKim-kv2vv]

@@GhostCountries A year later you show up in my feed. Over 16k, well done. Subscribed 🙋🏼

[@Artur_M.]

Even though I'm very interested in this topic I hesitated to click on the notification. I'm too preoccupied waching with horror the war unfolding right now. I gave the video a 'like' and I'm letting the video play on mute. I'm going to watch it later once I'll get calmer, hopefully...

[@GhostCountries]

Thank you Artur and we both completely understand; the current situation is beyond upsetting and we hope that any of our viewers either in Ukraine itself or, more generally, Eastern Europe are safe with everything that's ongoing.

[@Artur_M.]

@@GhostCountries I turned off the TV and I think I'm better. Let's hope the situation will stop getting more and more horrible soon, I guess... Anyway, it was really a great video! I've learned some new details, especially about the Crimean People's Republic. I very much liked the mentioning of Maciej Sulkiewicz and the Lipka Tatars. Although, I have to add that only the initial of several waves of Tatar settlement in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which gave birth to the Lipka community, was 'shamanistic' (or tangrist). The latter, more significant ones (like the followers of Khan Tokhtamysh fleeing Timur) were Muslim and so are the Lipka Tatars to this day.

[@GhostCountries]

True, we didn't mean to make it appear like that in-episode; Maciej (Suleyman bey / Mammad bey) Sulkiewicz and the significant majority of Lipka Tatars who preceded him were, unquestionably, Muslim. Honestly though, Sulkiewicz led quite an interesting life - maybe yet another candidate for a ghost biography - having served in China during the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War (specifically the Battle of Mukden), and WWI.

[@miltiadeskomnenos7437]

late to the party, but great video!

[@GhostCountries]

No problem Miltiades 😅 and thank you so much!

[@Argacyan]

I think Crimea is an interesting location historically & in light of the war (which is still ongoing) it just looks like two countries fighting over the land of a third. I think the video wasn't bad, but a lot was skipped up until WW1 and some of the framing is a bit incorrect the more you look into the history of the Crimean Khanate. So for example saying they were an Ottoman protectorate while not untrue isn't exactly correct either, with the diplomatic ties often being compared a bit to the Polish-Lithuanian-Commonwealth with some differences, such as the Ottoman sultan formally acknowledging the Crimean khan as the successor to Ghengis Khan & thus as ruler of all land in the steppes. Crimea formally leaving the Ottoman empire had less to do with them disliking self-determination as it did with them losing that status + Ottoman protection against what was the writing on the wall with Russia militarily expanding southwards.

[@jiayizhou323]

stay safe, people of Ukraine! and very informative video!

[@GhostCountries]

Thanks Jiayi!

[@mihail7439]

🇷🇺💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️

[@sabaurushadze1639]

How this channel got so little subscribers

[@GhostCountries]

Can't explain the algorithm sometimes, but we are moving towards 1K!

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Khazars, Cumans, Avars, Kipchaks, Bulgars, Onogurs, Huns, Sabirs, Utigurs, Kutrigurs, Saragurs also inhabited Crimea

[@Psolaras22]

Nobody cares

[@ArdaSReal]

​​@@Psolaras22someone with more iq than a rock would care 😂 you absolut 🤡

[@Argacyan]

Crimean Tatars are Kipchak, together with Cumans who ultimately ended up in Pannonia under Hungary. Groups like the Huns or Bulgars ruled, but largely never settled as inhabitants.

[@laszlonemet4425]

Tarass Bulba* (tale) (?)

[@ArdaSReal]

I pray for pur brothers and sister in crimea everyday... one of the best examples of russification and russian imperialims. I hope one day they will be free and get justice

[@laszlonemet4425]

Anybody imagination of Rwanda? ~110x250 km

[@nomeyodomar]

Turkic state. Should be independent!!

[@ArdaSReal]

It will be one day

[@roxnn]

not a turkic state, crimean tatars aren’t indigenous to Crimea

[@roxnn]

Crimean Tatars have started claiming they are indigenous to Crimea, it’s like saying Norwegians are indigenous to Australia😂

[@liamkelly1312]

No reference to Denikin being a anti semitic war criminal

[@abelsaid1932]

Why talking about Russia why talking about California annexed by America New Mexico and California part of mexico

[@Viktorixo]

Glory to Ukraine!

[@GhostCountries]

For all our viewers either in Ukraine itself or Eastern Europe, stay safe with everything that's ongoing. Dangerous times for sure.

[@Viktorixo]

1. Poland is Western Europe 2. I don't want Ukraine to be ghost country

[@mihail7439]

@@Viktorixo 🇷🇺💪🏻☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️

[@Viktorixo]

@@mihail7439 another zombie... I'm not against Russians, I'm against this cruel invasion. I hope you understand...

[@mihail7439]

@@Viktorixo лучше быть зомби чем быть европейцем,

[@hybridarmyofthegdl2193]

Украинцы просят солдафонов Орды🐕💩🇷🇺, сосредоточенных у границ с Украиной, на всякий случай положить в карманы семена плодовых деревьев, чтоб это все обрело хоть какой-то смысл. *кроме танкистов. Тут все бессмысленно.

[@yenidenturktarihtezi]

Taurians and Scythians proto Turkic

[@Soul-co7ki]

Even Scythians were not native either but they were Indo Europeans after all. Their Language is still spoken in one part of Russia. Tur was mentioned in the Avesta and he was never a Turk or a Mongol.