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The First Annexation of Crimea 1784
Catherine the Great was determined to expand the Russian Empire’s hegemony. Russian-Turkish War A decisive moment in the fate of Crimea was the outcome of the Russian-Turkish War that lasted from 1768 to 1774. Russians had been destabilizing Crimean tartars for years and an overstretched and weakened Ottoman Empire was easily defeated by Russian forces. […]