Crimean People's Republic
| Crimean People's Republic | ||||||||||
| Qırım Halq Cumhuriyeti | ||||||||||
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Anthem Ant etkenmen (Crimean Tatar) "I've pledged" |
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| Capital | Bakhchysarai | |||||||||
| Languages |
Crimean Tatar Russian |
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| Government | Republic | |||||||||
| President | ||||||||||
| • | 1917–1918 | Noman Çelebicihan | ||||||||
| Legislature | Qurultay | |||||||||
| Historical era | World War I | |||||||||
| • | Proclaimed | 13 December 1917 | ||||||||
| • | Soviet takeover | January 1918 | ||||||||
| • | Crimean Offensive | 13–25 April 1918 | ||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||
| • | 1917 | 26,860 km² (10,371 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||
| • | 1917 est. | 749,800 | ||||||||
| Density | 27.9 /km² (72.3 /sq mi) | |||||||||
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The Crimean People's Republic (Crimean Tatar: Qırım Halq Cumhuriyeti) existed from December 1917 to January 1918 in the Crimean Peninsula, a territory currently disputed between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Being at the time a Muslim-majority region, the Crimean People's Republic was the first attempt in the Muslim world to establish a state that was secular (see also Azerbaijan Democratic Republic). In its founding, the Crimean People's Republic was one of many short-lived attempts to create new states after the Russian Revolution of 1917 had caused the Russian Empire to collapse.
The Crimean People's Republic was declared by the initiative of the Qurultay of Crimean Tatars, which stipulated the equality of all ethnicities within the peninsula; the largest proportion of people living in the Crimea at the time were Russian (then comprising 42% of the population of the Crimea) or Ukrainian (11%). However the Crimean Tatars were for a while the dominant political and cultural force on the peninsula. Noman Çelebicihan was the first President of the nascent Republic.
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