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The Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the only autonomous republic in Ukraine at present, is located in the Crimean Peninsula, with an area of 26 100 square kilometers and a population of more than 2 million. The name of Crimea comes from the Tatars' "Crimea", where the Tatars established the Crimean khanate and lived for more than 700 years. Today, however, the Tatar population accounts for only 12% of Crimea, and nearly 60% of the population are modern Russian immigrants.

Tatar is the main ethnic group of Qincha khanate (Golden Account khanate), one of the four great khanates in Mongolia. Originally, it was a general term for Mongolians in the west. When Shu Chi, the eldest son of Genghis Khan, established the Chincha khanate, there were only 4,000 Mongolian sergeants. By integrating the local majority of Azu (Alan) people, Qincha (Kangju) people and other Turkic peoples, the Tatar people in Eastern Europe gradually formed.

/kloc-In the 5th century, the Golden Horde began to disintegrate and split into several khanates. Among them, Haji Golay, a descendant of Shu Chi, founded the Crimean Khanate. The Khanate once dominated the grassland in southern Russia on the northern shore of the Black Sea, claiming to be the heir of the Golden Account Khanate. Ukraine and Russia were frequently invaded by the Crimean Khanate.

However, the backward nomadic countries eventually lost to the gradually civilized Russian Empire. Almost at the same time that Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and other early colonial empires expanded overseas, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, crowned czar by the Orthodox Church, was officially called the Russian Empire, and it also began overseas colonial expansion. Unlike Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, the Netherlands and other Western European countries occupying overseas colonies, Russia's colonial expansion targets are mainly neighboring countries. 1777, the Crimean khanate became a vassal state of Russia, and 1783 was formally annexed. However, the Tatars in Crimea did not willingly accept Russian rule, but constantly set off resistance movements. While brutally suppressing the resistance movement, the Russians constantly organized immigrants and firmly controlled the newly conquered areas. A large number of Russians moved into Crimea and promoted Russian and Orthodox Church in an effort to destroy the Tatars. Since then, Crimea has become a province of Russia, and its strategic position is very important, which directly affects Russia's control over the Black Sea region. The famous Crimean War broke out between 1854 and 1856. During World War II, bloody battles broke out in Crimea many times, including the Battle of Kerch and the Battle of Sevastopol.

192 1 year, the socialist autonomous Republic of Crimea Tatar was declared to be established and belonged to the Russian Federation. At this time, although the number of Russians is already very large, the main ethnic group in Crimea is still Tatars. However, after 1944, Stalin forced all Crimean Tatars to move to Central Asia on the grounds that most Crimean Tatars cooperated with Germany. The socialist autonomous Republic of Tatars was also changed to Crimea, and a large number of Russians moved to Crimea, which led to fundamental changes in the population structure and ethnic distribution of Crimea. Hundreds of thousands of Tatars were displaced. It is said that 46% of them died of hunger or disease in exile, and it took decades before they were allowed to return to their hometown. 1954, in order to strengthen the Soviet Union's control over Ukraine with centrifugal tendency, Khrushchev included Crimea, which was dominated by Russians, in the name of the 300th anniversary of the "alliance" between Ukraine and Russia. Because of the Soviet system at that time and the special status of Russians in the Soviet Union, this did not cause controversy at that time. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Russian Parliament unilaterally passed a resolution calling for the abolition of the Soviet Union's resolution to divide Crimea into Ukraine in 1954, and "recover" Crimea from Russia, which was rejected by the Ukrainian government. Finally, Russia, Ukraine and Croatia reached a compromise to establish internal autonomy for Crimea and maintain the Russian garrison at the Sevastopol naval base in the Black Sea.

Later, the Tatars began the return movement, which continued after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but the population is still only over 200,000. According to the results of the 20001Ukrainian census, the total population of Crimea is 2,033,700. The ethnic composition of the total population is: Russian 58.32%, Ukrainian 24.32%, Crimean Tatar 12. 10%, Belarusian10.44%, Tatar 0.54% and Armenian 0.43%. The voice of Crimea's "return" to Russia from Ukraine is very high, but most Tatars are firmly opposed. However, due to its minority status, its voice is difficult to play a decisive role.