Crimea 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 Ukrain ...

, or the Crimean Peninsula, historically also known as the ''Tauric Chersonese'' (Tauric Peninsula, Tauric, Taurica, or Tauris), is a major peninsula in the north of the Black Sea. Crimea may also refer to:

Places

Crimean Peninsula

Republic of Crimea

* Republic of Crimea (1992–1995), the government of Crimea after the dissolution of the Soviet Union *

Autonomous Republic of Crimea The Autonomous Republic of Crimea is a ''de jure'' administrative division of Ukraine encompassing most of Crimea that was unilaterally annexed by Russia in 2014. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea occupies most of the peninsula,Republic of Crimea (country), a short-lived partially recognised country under Russian control existing in March 2014 *

Republic of Crimea (Russia) The Republic of Crimea is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia, comprising most of the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula, but excluding Sevastopol. Its territory corresponds to the pre-2023 territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a de jur ...

(2014–present), a federal subject of Russia (partially recognised)

Historical

* Roman Crimea (47 BCE – c. 340 CE) *

Crimean Khanate The Crimean Khanate, self-defined as the Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak, and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary, was a Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441 to 1783, the longest-lived of th ...

(1441–1783) *

Taurida Governorate Taurida Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire. It included the territory of the Crimean Peninsula and the mainland between the lower Dnieper River with the coasts of the Black Sea and Sea o ...

(1802–1917), in the Russian Empire *During the Russian Civil War: ** Crimean People's Republic, a short-lived secular Muslim state (December 1917–January 1918) ** Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic (1918) ** Crimean Regional Government (1918–1919) * Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic (1919) * Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1921–1945), in the RSFSR *Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1921–1945), within the Russian SFSR, in the Soviet Union; see Crimea in the Soviet Union *Crimea-Taurida, part of the

Reichskommissariat Ukraine The ''Reichskommissariat Ukraine'' (RKU; ) was an administrative entity of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944. It served as the German civilian occupation regime in the Ukrainian SSR, and ...

when

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

occupied the country in WWII * Crimean Oblast (1945–1991) within the Soviet Union * Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1991–1992), within the Ukrainian SSR, in the Soviet Union * Crimean Federal District (2014–2016), a federal district of Russia

Elsewhere

* Crimea, Louisiana, an unincorporated community in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, United States * Crimea, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States * Crimea, Queensland, a locality in Australia * 1140 Crimea, a main-belt asteroid * Crimea Pass, a mountain pass in north Wales

Other uses

*Crimea, a fictional country in the video games '' Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance'' and '' Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn'' * Crimea Air, a defunct airline *''

History of Crimea The recorded history of the Crimean Peninsula, historically known as ''Tauris'', ''Taurica'' (), and the ''Tauric Chersonese'' (, "Tauric Peninsula"), begins around the 5th century BCE when several Greeks in pre-Roman Crimea, Greek colonies were ...