Crimea has the distinction of being the site of the last remnants of two formerly great empires.

In 1475, the Ottoman Empire took the last remaining principality of the Byzantine Empire, the Roman Empire that survived the fall of Rome.

Then in 1783, the Russians overran the Crimean Khanate, a leftover from the Mongol Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Theodoro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Khanate

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