title: This Blessed Land: Crimea and the Crimean Tatars
abstract: 1. What is Crimea? 2. Crimea's earliest civilizations 3. The Kipchaks, Mongols, Tatars, and Italianate Crimea 4. The Crimean Khanate 5. Crimea in the Russian Empire 6. Crimea in War and Revolution 7. The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic 8. Crimea during World War II 9. Soviet Crimea and the Crimean Tatar Diaspora 10. Crimea in the Independent Ukraine