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2019, no.1. Leylya Seytkhalilova

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The Ethnogenesis of the Crimean Tatars. An Historical Reinterpretation. (Brian Glyn Williams)

Leylya Seytkhalilova

(Crimean Scientific Center of Sh. Marjani Institute of History
of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences)

Annotation. This article is the translation of Brian Glyn Williams`s work “The Ethnogenesis of the Crimean Tatars. An Historical Reinterpretation”. Brian Williams is the professor of  history of Islam on the Chair of Massachusetts University in Dartmouth, the USA. The source is: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Third Series, Vol. 11, № 3, (Nov., 2001), pp. 329–348. The article considers the issue of the Crimean Tatar`s ethnogenesis, their communal identity, social-economic conditions of the activities. On the basis of the studied material, the author comes to conclusion of necessity of Crimean Tatar`s History Reinterpretation.

Keywords: Ethnogenesis, Crimean Tatars, Crimean Khanate, farming, gardening, crafts, reinterpretation, communal identity

For citation: Seytkhalilova L. S.  The Ethnogenesis of the Crimean Tatars. An Historical Reinterpretation. (Brian Glyn Williams). Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie=Crimean Historical Review. 2019, no. 1, pp.18-44.  DOI: 10.22378/kio.2019.1.18-44

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About the translator: Leylya Seytkhalilovna Seytkhalilova – senior English language teacher, laboratory assistant of the Crimean Scientific Center of Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (420111, Kazan, Batirin St., 7A, Russian Federation); lilya_crimea@mail.ru

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