Yevpatoria

Yevpatoria or Eupatoria (, , , , ,  - Yevpatoria) is a ceety in Crimea, Ukraine.

History
The first recordit dounset in the aurie, cried Kerkinitis (Κερκινίτης), wis biggit bi Greek colonists aroond 500 BC. Alang wi the rest o Crimea, Kerkinitis wis pairt o the dominions o Mithridates VI, Keeng o Pontus, frae whose cognomen, Eupator, the ceety's modren name derives.

Frae roughly the 7t throu the 10t centuries AD Yevpatoriya wis a Khazar dounset; its name in Khazar leid wis probably Güzliev (literally "bonnie hoose").Brutzkus, Julius (1944). "The Khazar Origin of Ancient Kiev", Slavonic and East European Review, p. 118 It wis later subject tae the Cumans (Kipchaks), the Mongols an the Crimean Khanate. Durin this period the ceety wis cried Kezlev bi Crimean Tatars an Gözleve bi Ottomans. The Roushie medieval name Kozlov is a Roushification o the Crimean Tatar name.

For a short period atween 1478 an 1485, the ceety wis admeenistrated bi the Ottoman Empire. Efterwards it became an important urban centre o the Crimean Khanate. In 1783, wi the whole Crimea, Kezlev wis captured bi the Roushie Empire. Its name wis offeecially chyngit tae Yevpatoriya in 1784. The ceety wis briefly occupeed in 1854 bi Breetish, French an Turkis troops durin the Crimean War, when it wis the steid o the Battle o Eupatoria. Adam Mickiewicz visitit the toun in 1825 an wrote ane o his Crimean Sonnets here; it wis later translatit intae Roushie bi Mikhail Lermontov.

The 400 year auld Juma Jami mosque is ane o the mony designed or biggit bi the Ottoman airchitect Mimar Sinan. 35-metre minarets rose on the flanks o the biggin. The mosque wis o great state significance. It wis here that a ceremony o the declaration o richts o the Crimean Khans wis held at thair enthronement. Anerlie efter that thay went tae thair caipital, the ceety o Bakhchisarai.

Efter the annexation o the Crimea bi Roushie Yevpatoriya became a residence o the spiritual ruler o the Karaites, the Gakham. In this connection here a complex o twa prayin hooses wis biggit unner the superveesion o the Rabovich brithers, in which forms o the Renaissance an Moslem airchitectur entwined in a maist unusual manner. The ensemble organically incorporates three courtyards. The entrance tae it is merked bi the gates, biggit in 1900, which leuk lik a refeened triumphal airch.

Modren Yevpatoria
The day Yevpatoriya is a major Ukrainian Black Sea port, a rail hub, an resort toun. The main industries include fishin, fuid processin, wine makin, limestane quarryin, weavin, an the manufactur o biggin materials, machinery, furnitur manufacturin an tourism.  The Naitional Space Agency o Ukraine haes grund control an trackin facilities here.Russian spacecraft for Fobos-Grunt program to be controlled from Yevpatoria, Kyiv Post (June 25, 2010)

Yevpatoriya haes spas o mineral watter, salt an mud lakes. Thir resorts belang tae a vast aurie wi curative facilities whaur the main heal-impruivin factors are the sunshine an sea, air an saund, brine an mud o the salt lakes, as well as the mineral watter o the het springs. The population o the toun is sur tae hae kent aboot the curative qualities o the local mud that can be foond here frae time immemorial, which is witnessed bi the manuscripts o Pliny the Elder, a Roman scholar (ca 80 BC).

On December 24, 2008 a blast destroyed a five story biggin in the toun. 27 fowk wur killed. Preses Viktor Yushchenko declared December 26 tae be a day o naitional mournin.UPDATE: 26 Killed, 5 Hospitalized After Crimea House Blast, Ukrainian News Agency (December 26, 2008)Death toll of Crimean blast reaches 27, says Emergencies Ministry , Interfax-Ukraine (December 26, 2008)Friday Declared Mourning Day In Ukraine For Victims Of Yevpatoriya Gas Explosion , Ukrainian News Agency (December 26, 2008)Ukraine mourns Crimea blast dead, BBC News (December 26, 2008)27 dead after Ukrainian apartment blast, CNN (December 26, 2008)

Twa beaches in Yevpatoria are Blue Flag beaches syne Mey 2010, thir whaur the first beaches (wi twa beaches in Yalta) tae be awardit a Blue Flag in a CIS memberstate.Four beaches in Crimea receive international certificates o cleanliness, Kyiv Post (May 12, 2010)

Aurie Attractions
Famous attractions athin or near Yevpatoria are:
 Juma-Jami Mosque
 Karaite Kenassa
 St. Nicholas' the Miracle Worker Cathedral
 Dervishes Tekje

Names o asteroid number 6489 an number 24648
Asteroid nummer 6489 haes a name GOLEVKA, which haes a complicatit oreegin. In 1995, Golevka wis studied simultaneously bi three radar observatories athort the warld: Goldstone in Californie, Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope in Ukraine (Yevpatoriya is whiles romanized as Evpatoria) an Kashima in Japan. 'Gol-Ev-Ka' comes frae the first few letters o each observatory's name; it wis proposed bi the discoverer follaein a suggestion bi Alexander Leonidovich Zaitsev.

Asteroid 24648 Evpatoria wis discovered 1985 Sept. 19 bi Nikolai Chernykh an Lyudmila Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, an named in honour o Evpatoria (sicweys Yevpatoriya). The minor planet merked the occasion o the 2500t anniversary o the toun in 2003.JPL Small-Body Database, NASA

Sister ceeties

 Airms Ceety Naition Syne  Ioannina  1989 25px Figueira da Foz  1989 25px Ludwigsburg  1992  Zakynthos  2002 30px Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski  2004 30px Krasnogorsky Destrict  2006  Lambie   2009 25px Belgorod  2010

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References

Freemit airtins

 Yevpatoriya Photo gallery   - 
 MA in Black Sea Cultural Studies. International Hellenic University-School o Humanities.

Category:Ceeties in Crimea

Category:Crimean Khanate
Category:Khazar touns
Category:Bosporan Kinrick
Category:Greek colonies in Crimea
Category:Auncient Greek ceeties
Category:Populatit places established in the 1st millennium BC
Category:Seaside resorts in Ukraine