The Greek word Tartarus means hell and Europeans ... Tartary was printed on maps until the 20th century. Tatars or sometimes Tartars (not to be confused with the sauce) refer to Turkic groups ...

Soviet forces under Stalin’s orders deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars, the peninsula’s native population, to Central ...

Elina Novokhatska at the ‘Memorial to the Genocide of the Crimean Tatars’ in Kyiv. Aqmescit is the native name of her hometown, Simferopol. Photo: Bradley Stafford. Elina Novokhatska was born in 1998 ...