クリミア は、英語で crimea 、ロシア語で крым 、ウクライナ語で крим 、クリミア・タタール語の キリル文字 表記で къырым 、同じく ラテン文字 表記で qırım。 Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and russia has spent centuries fighting for it. Soviet leader nikita khrushchev transferred crimea from russia to ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the ussr, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the.
The republic is coterminous with the crimean peninsula, lying between the black sea and the sea of azov. Crimea, autonomous republic, southern ukraine. Crimea, which juts out into the black sea off southern ukraine, was absorbed into the russian empire along with most ethnic ukrainian territory by catherine the great in the.