Crimean Tatar People
Crimean Tatar, Russian, Turkish
Mostly Sunni Islam, Minority Alevite, and Orthodox Christianity
Krymchaks, Crimean Karaites, Kumyks, Turks, Gagauz
Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar: Qırımtatar) or Crimeans (Crimean Tatar: Qırım, Qırımlı) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the Crimean peninsula on the northern part of the Black Sea, in modern-day Ukraine. They are one of the three subgroups of the Tatars, the others being the Volga Tatars and the Lipka Tatars. Crimean Tatars speak Crimean Tatar, Turkish, or Russian, depending on locale.
In modern times, in addition to living in Crimea, Ukraine, there is a large diaspora of Crimean Tatars in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Western Europe, the Middle East and North America, as well as small communities in Finland, Lithuania, Russia, Belarus and Poland.
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