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This paper deals with the material of Italian archives related to the history of Crimea. It demonstrates that only a few scholars have dedicated their research to Crimean studies and published papers in Turkey or elsewhere in recent years. Turkish historians have tended mainly to focus on the Ottoman Empire. Although some publications about the Crimean Khanate have been produced in historical literature during the last twenty years, the sources they use are mostly limited to either Russian or Ottoman archives. Italian archives are usually disregarded despite being important sources for historians interested in the Crimea. My aim is to guide researchers who wish to study this subject using Italian archives. First, information about archive catalogues directly connected to relations between the Khanate and the Italian city-states, such as Bologna, Modena and Venice is given. Then some examples of the documents, including letters, dispacci, reports and missionary records, considered to be relevant to the Crimean Khanate, will be presented.
The article analyses the main tendencies in the transformation of the urban structure of Crimea at the later stage of the existence of the Crimean Khanate and the early years of Russian domination. After the Russian annexation of 1783, the urban structure of Crimea underwent some sort of hasty modernisation. This process, which strongly affected its most important centres (Sevastopol', Simferopol', Feodosija, Evpatorija) was less evident in smaller towns and settlements (Bahçesaray, Karasubazar). Some old mediaeval settlements were either entirely abandoned (Mangup, Çufut Kale, Orqapısı), or remained in the state of decline (Eski Kırım/Staryj Krym). The settlements along Crimea's coastline started to develop rapidly. Those situated on the southern coast (Yalta, Gurzuf, Alushta, Alupka, Nikita) started growing mostly because of their touristic importance, whereas those situated on the western shore (Sevastopol', Balaklava, Inkerman), due to their military significance.
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. ‘The Khan and the Tribal Aristocracy The Crimean Khanate under Sahib Giray I.’ Harvard Ukrainian Studies V/3-4/Part 1 : 445 – 466 . Jackson , Peter 2005 . The Mongols and the West 1221–1410 . New York : Routledge . Jackson , Peter 2017
The Crimean Khanate and Poland Lithuania. International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (15th–18th Century). A Study of Peace Treaties Followed by Annotated Documents by Dariusz Kołodziejczyk. Leiden Boston, Brill 2011 (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage. Politics, Society and Economy. Volume 47. Ed. Suraiya Faroqhi Halil İnalcık Boğaç Ergene). 1049 pages, XVII facsimiles, 2 maps.
The article deals with the word koreš ‘close friend’ used in Russian cant. It comes from the Russian verb koreševat’sja ‘to greet each other friendly, to establish friendship and close relations’ that, in turn, has its origin in the Turkic verb körüš- ‘to see each other, to have an audience’. The diplomatic ceremony of koreševan’e ‘a kind of very close embrace’ was common in the Golden Horde and its successor states — the Khanates of the Crimea, Kazan and Astrakhan, the Noghay Horde and Muscovy, at least up to the end of the 16th century. Soon the word koreš (literally:’ a man participating in the ceremony of koreševan’e’) with the meaning ‘true and close friend’ was ejected to the sphere of Russian slang and acquired a secondary, alleged link with the Russian word koren’ ‘root’ as if it were its pseudo-diminutive form.
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. Vásáry , I. ( 2012 ) The Crimean Khanate and the Great Horde (1440s–1500s): A Fight for Primacy . In: Klein , D. (ed.): The Crimean Khanate between East and West (15th–18th Century) . Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag (Forschungen zur
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. Muhametshin 1977 . ‘Unpublished Volga Bulgarian Inscriptions.’ Acta Orientalia Hung . 31 / 1 : 107 – 125 . Królikowska-Jedlińska , Natalia 2018 . Law and Division of Power in the Crimean Khanate (1532–1774): With Special Reference to the Reign of
