Meñli I Giray

male, deceased (1515)
crimea, khan, ozu, CrimeanTatar, Crimean Khanate, sarai
Meñli I Giray (1445-1515), also spelled as "Mengli I Giray", was a khan of the Crimean Khanate (1466, 1469-1475, 1478-1515) and the sixth son of t...

İsmail Gaspıralı

male, deceased (1914)
Muslim, Educator, crimea, secondary education, islamic, politician…CrimeanTatar, Crimean Tatars
İsmail Gaspıralı (Gasprinskiy) was a famous Crimean Tatar intellectual, educator, publisher and politician. He was one of the first Muslim int...
Devlet I Giray

Devlet I Giray

male, deceased (1577)
CrimeanTatar, kazan, Fire of Moscow, Battle of Molodi, the 1571 campaign, Ottoman Turk…Crimean Tatars, Crimean Khanate
Devlet I Giray (1512-1577) was a khan of the Crimean Khanate during whose long reign (1551-1577) the khanate rose to the pinnacle of its power....
Pylyp Orlyk

Pylyp Orlyk

male, deceased (1742)
CrimeanTatar, Cracow, islam, salonica, cossack, porte…Crimean Tatars
Pylyp Orlyk was a Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, secretary and close associate of Ivan Mazepa. Orlyk was born in Vilejka (now in Belarus) and...
Mustafa Abdülcemil Qırımoğlu

Mustafa Abdülcemil Qırımoğlu

male, 66 years old
Union of Young Crimean Tatar, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee, soviet, crimea, dissident, CrimeanTatar…Crimean Tatars, Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Crimean Tatar National Movement, Union of Young Crimean Tatars
Mustafa Abdülcemil Qırımoğlu (Cemilev), also known as Mustafa Jemilev (Dzhemilev, Cemilev), is Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar Peop...

Edigu

male, deceased (1419)
Edege Mangit, CrimeanTatar, tatar, Gorodets, herat, crimea…Crimean Tatars
Edigu, or Edigey, also İdegäy or Edege Mangit was an emir of the White Horde who founded the new political entity, which came to be known as the No...

Bekir Çoban-Zade

male, deceased (1937)
azerbaijani, CrimeanTatar, scientist, executed, hungarian, Russian…Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar language
Bekir Çoban-zade, and his last name means 'son of shepherd'. As a young boy, he helped his father herd the sheep, and these early experiences in t...
Mehmet Niyazi

Mehmet Niyazi

male, deceased (1931)
poet, Muslim, romanian, activist, Academic, Magazine editor…CrimeanTatar, Crimean Tatar language, Tatar poet, Tatar-Romanians, Crimean Tatar diaspora
Mehmet Niyazi Cemali (January or February 1878-November 20, 1931) was an Ottoman-born Romanian and Crimean Tatar poet, journalist, schoolteacher,...
Ivan Bolotnikov

Ivan Bolotnikov

male
CrimeanTatar, slave, Kaluga, Volga, Putyvl, Knyaz…Crimean Tatars
Ivan Isayevich Bolotnikov was the leader of the uprising of 1606-1607 (Bolotnikov rebellion, Восстание Ивана Болотникова), which was part of the Tim...
Mehmed Iv Giray

Mehmed Iv Giray

male, deceased (1674)
poet, sufi, CrimeanTatar, Crimean Khanate, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Crimean Tatar language
Mehmed IV Giray Sufi (Sofu) (1610-1674) — a khan of the Crimean Khanate in 1641 -1644 and 1654-1666. Supporter of the Polish-Lithuanian Co...