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)
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