Crimea

Crimea, a peninsula in the S. of Russia, almost surrounded by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, being connected with the mainland by the narrow isthmus of Perekop; has a bold and precipitous coast 650 m. in length; is barren in the N., but fertile and fruitful in the S.; population chiefly Russians and Tartars.

Population (circa 1900) given as 250,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Crillon * Crimean War
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Creswick, Thomas
Crete
Cretinism
Creusa
Creusot, Le
Creuzer
Crewe
Crichton, James
Crieff
Crillon
Crimea
Crimean War
Crinan Canal
Crispi, Francesco
Crispin
Critias
Criton
Croa`tia and Slavonia
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford
Crœsus
Croker, John Wilson

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