![]() ![]() It is also considered a must to treat the dog with the delicious dishes cooked. It is traditional to buy new shoes and clothes for children as well as candies. Women clean houses and cook up festive dishes. Men visit and tidy up the graves of their relatives. Four days ahead of the holiday Crimean Tatars start the cleaning. It is the day to ask each other for forgiveness, the time for all who have quarreled to make peace. Following the festive namaz (Salah) Crimean Tatars give out alms to those suffering, to poor, orphans, homeless and single elderly. Eid al-Fitr starts right when Ramadan is over. An animal (a ram in Crimea) is usually sacrificed. The celebration is held near a sacred place. Derviza is observed during the autumn equinox, on September 22. Festivities praise labor and social activities. Hıdırlez is a holiday marked on the first week of May when the first spike of grain appears in the field. It marks the beginning of spring, the first day of a new year as well as the start of a new agricultural season. Navrez is the day of farmers, celebrated on March 20 or 21 (spring equinox). It is a family holiday that bears no complicated rituals. Crimean Muslims celebrate it on December 22, on the day of the winter solstice. There are six most popular Crimean Tatar festivities. The town accommodated a slave market and was a destination for numerous Cossack sea trips. Only Bakhchysarai outnumbered it by the number of houses. Gözleve became one of the most important cities of the Crimean Khanate in XVI-XVIII centuries. The word originates from the Ottoman word meaning “to watch, to overlook”. The Ottomans called the town Gözleve which means “one hundred eyes” or “a house and an eye”. In 1475, the region was seized by the Ottoman Empire. Yevpatoria originated as a small Greek settlement around 500 BC. Yevpatoria is famous with its thermal and salt waters as well as with the mud baths. It is a resort town with a port located on the western coast of the Crimean Peninsula. The official explanation for these actions was alleged collaboration of some Crimean Tatars with the Nazi Germany during the WWII. Soviet authorities, namely NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs), started forcible deportation of Crimean Tatars from the peninsula on May 18, 1944. The Crimean Tatar saying goes: “Coffee and tobacco is all you need for happiness.” Traditionally as soon as the lady of the house heard a guest enter the house she immediately started making coffee. Coffee is usually served in small cups with sugar. It is also considered to be the year when the city itself was founded.Ĭoffee is an integral part of the Crimean Tatar routines. In 1532 Khan’s residence was officially moved to the Bakhchysarai Palace. Later this name spread to the city that quickly grew around the palace and became the capital of the Crimean Khanate. It was called Bakhchysarai (translated as the “palace in the garden” from the Tatar). At the beginning of the XVI century a new Khan palace started being constructed. His son Mengli Giray constructed a new palace Devlet Sarai at the foot of Kyrk-Or. In the XV century Kyrk-Or became residence of the Crimean Khan Haci I Giray. In the V-VI centuries on the outskirts of the present-day Bakhchysarai a cave city Kyrk-Or appeared. It is a town, administrative center in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The Crimean Tatar community prefers Latin characters as they better correspond to the language’s phonetics. De-facto authorities of the annexed Crimea are now in try to re-introduce Cyrilics for the Crimean Tatar language. ![]() In 1997 the new Latin alphabet was officially approved by the Parliament (Rada) of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The 1990s saw the start of the gradual transition of the language to the new Latin alphabet based on the Turkish one. All its letters coincide with those of the Russian alphabet. Cyrilic alphabet was the only official one that Crimean Tatars had between 19. Cyrilics was introduced in 1938 based on the Russian alphabet. In 1928 it was replaced with Latin alphabet. Initially Crimean Tatars used Arabic script for their writing. Today in use there are the two types of alphabet: Cyrillic and Latin. ![]()
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