Crimean Tatar Cuisine (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Crimean Tatar cuisine is primarily the cuisine of the Crimean Tatars, who live on the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine. Crimean Tatars have lived on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea at least since the 13th century. In 1944, they were unjustly accused by Joseph Stalin of collaborating with the Nazi occupiers during World War II and some 500,000 Crimean Tatars were deported to Central Asia. In the early 1990s, after nearly five decades in exile, approximately 250,000 Crimean Tatars decided to return to Crimea, officially a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic since 1954. The Tatars living in Crimea today are a minority on the peninsula, accounting for 12% of the population of Crimea. Other countries with significant population of Crimean Tatars are Uzbekistan, Russia, Turkey, and Romania.