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Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- MAPS -- A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION -- ORIENTATION: TERMINOLOGY AND SPELLING -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Crimea in Myth and Legend -- The Polish Sarmatian myth -- The Magyars and Crimea -- A Germanic Crimea? From the Gothic myth to the National Socialist "Gotengau" -- Slavic Russian myths of Crimea -- Crimea: A centre of Russian culture? -- 2 Greeks, Scythians and Others -- Crimea as a polyethnic transit and settlement zone -- 3 New Actors: Sarmatians and Others -- 4 The Mithridatic Wars: Crimea under Roman Rule -- 5 Goths, Huns, the "Great Migration" and Its Impact on Crimea -- 6 Crimea as a Site of Early Christianity -- 7 Crimea between the Eastern Roman Empire, Crimean Gothia and the Khazar Empire -- 8 Crimea between Kyivan Rus', Byzantium and Eurasian Semi-Nomadic Groups -- 9 Kumans, Polovtsians and Kipchaks -- 10 The Fourth Crusade (1202-04) and Its Consequences for Crimea -- 11 The Pax Mongolica, Trade, Slavery and the "Black Death" -- 12 The Principality of Theodoro and a Lithuanian Intermezzo -- 13 The Crimean Khanate: The Beginnings -- 14 The Establishment of the Crimean Khanate -- Krim (the Crimea) -- 15 The Crimean Khanate: Ottoman Suzerainty and the Balance of Power in Eastern Europe -- 16 Slavery and the Topos of the Crimean Tatar Warrior -- 17 The Nogai as a Factor in Early Modern Crimean History -- 18 Cossacks as a Factor in Early Modern Crimean History -- 19 Inside the Crimean Khanate -- 20 The Lead-Up to Annexation: The Strengthening of the Russian Empire, the "Greek Plan" and the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1774 -- 21 The 'Independent' Crimean Khanate and Russian Annexation (1774 - 83) -- 22 The First Decades of Russian Rule in Crimea.

23 Multiethnic and Multireligious Crimea under Tsarist Rule: The Tatar Population -Gender Relations -- 24 Multiethnic and Multireligious Crimea under Tsarist Rule: 'Old' and 'New' Inhabitants - Economic Development -- 25 The Crimean War: A 'Modern' War? -- 26 The Crimean War: The Events in the Peninsula -- 27 After the War: Crimea between 1856 and 1905 -- 28 The Crimean Tatar Population after the Crimean War -- 29 The Revolution of 1905 and its Impact in Crimea -- 30 The First World War and the Revolution on the Periphery: The Crimean Peninsula, 1917-20 -- 31 The Crimean Peninsula, 1920-41 -- 32 Crimea in the Second World War -- 33 The Deportations of 1944/45 and Their Background -- 34 Crimea after the Second World War -- 35 After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Crimea as Part of Independent Ukraine -- 36 Russian Again?! Crimea After the Second Annexation of 2014 -- Postscript -- NOTES -- SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX: PEOPLE -- INDEX: PLACES.

An authoritative history of Crimea from its mythical beginnings to its annexation by Russia in 2014 and beyond.