239 years since annexation of Crimea

And not 8 years, as many believe!

On April 19, 1783, Catherine II signed the manifesto on the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula to the Russian Empire. This was the result of a centuries-old struggle for access to the Black Sea. Catherine II established the Taurida Governate (ancient Greek name for Crimea) region, under the control of Grigory Potemkin.

After the Russian-Ottoman Empire war of 1787-1791, the Jassy peace treaty was signed, in which the possession of the entire northern Black Sea coast from the Dniester to the Kuban, including Crimea, was finally secured for the Russian Empire.

In 1954, Khruschev gifted the Crimea over to Ukrainian jurisdiction, without having sufficient quorum to have done so.

Prior to 2014, the historical port city of Sevastopol almost fell to NATO dominance of the region. Geostrategically, this would have been an irrecoverable loss for Russia.

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