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510: 270:. Although Selim Giray managed to arrive in Crimea and met with local rebels, Russia intercepted and prevented the landing of the Turkish military force that was planned to assist him. This was followed on 17 February 1778 by the surrounding and surrender of Selim Giray's force, forcing him to renounce power and recognize Şahin Giray's rule as legitimate. Following these failed attempts at altering the status quo in Crimea, as well as a threat by Russian ambassador 130: 351: 418:, along with metropolitan bishop Ignatius himself. A total of 31,386 people were resettled from Crimea, with only 288 Christians remaining within the peninsula by the time the resettlement had been completed. According to Alexander Suvorov, the whole process cost the Russian Imperial government around 130,000 rubles to implement. 383: 526:
After the resettlement had finished, some Armenians and Greeks later returned to Crimea, although most chose to remain in the regions to which they were resettled. The resettled were, for the most part, treated well by the Russian authorities and allowed to retain their local customs. On 14 November
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as the new Khan. His status as Khan was approved by the Crimean State council on 28 March 1777, who then also appealed to Russian authorities with a request for the Russian military presence in Crimea to be maintained indefinitely, in order to prevent any future Ottoman interference. Despite this,
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While the Russian state officially paid khan Şahin Giray 50,000 rubles as compensation, this was not nearly enough to make up for the economic damage that had resulted from the exodus of the Christians. The financial ruin caused by the relocation caused Crimean khan Şahin Giray to resign from his
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reported to the khan that metropolitan Ignatius had requested the Russian authorities to withdraw all Christians from the city, at which point some local Christians opposed to this requested the mayor to intervene. On 21 July, the Russian government officially informed the khan about the ongoing
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shore. Additionally, the exodus of the Christians, who were the wealthiest subjects of the Crimean khan, would cause the Khanate to lose tax revenue and become more dependent on Russia, eventually leading to its complete integration. Regarding Russian intentions to make use of the relocation to
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Subsequent to the appointment of Alexander Suvorov to the head of the military administration over Crimea in April 1778, the process of preparing the relocation of the Christian population officially began, with the help of metropolitan bishop Ignatius in its implementation. Once rumors of the
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1779 the Russian government instituted the "Charters Granted to Christians of the Greek and Armenian Denominations Who Migrated from the Crimea to Settle in the Azov Province," which gave the migrants the right to administer themselves according to their own legal norms and exempted them from
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However, by 23 July 1778 Şahin Giray had realized the futility of any resistance to the royal decree of Catherine the Great, and signed an order announcing the withdrawal of Christians from Crimea. Additionally, he called on the inhabitants of the Crimean Khanate not to resist the relocation
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wrote a poem titled "To Prince Aleksandrovich Potemkin," in which he celebrates the Russian leadership for their role in the exodus of the peninsula's Armenians and Greeks, calling it the result of divine intervention which allowed the state to "regenerate foreign peoples into Russian".
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Whether the resettlement was voluntary or involuntary remains a highly debated topic among historians today, but it is clear that the Christians of Crimea were, at the very least, heavily persuaded by Russia via a propaganda campaign led by the Russian state and the
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relocation began to spread among the Crimean population, they were initially denied by Crimean khan Şahin Giray on 18 July 1778, who was at the time unaware of its preparation. Following this, on the same day, the mayor of
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During the time of the migrants in Katerynoslav, they were held in the homes of other peasants and unable to participate in agriculture, resulting in an difficult economic situation for them.
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began planning a method for the resettlement of the Greek and Armenian populations of the region. One primary motivation for this plan was a desire to eliminate the ethnic tensions between
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and Christians within Crimea, which had been raised as result of the Russian military intervention. Another motivation was the desire to colonize the unpopulated Pryazovia region on the
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The first wave of the resettlement began on 26 July, with the process continuing until 24 November when the last batch of immigrants were resettled to the city of
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as the new khan of Crimea. This resulted in Russian military intervention on 23 November 1776, with Catherine the Great proclaiming the Russian-aligned
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In December 1777, the Ottoman Empire once again attempted to appoint to the Crimean throne a khan of its choosing,
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In April 1780, the Greeks temporarily being held in Katerynoslav began to be settled in a number of newly founded
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with his objections, in which he requested to be given the power to prevent the relocation from taking place:
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had captured the entirety of the Crimean peninsula. As a result of the end of the war and the signing of the
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A request from the metropolitan of Crimea, Ignatius, that Crimean Christians be made Russian subjects
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Russia had long sought to pacify its notoriously unstable southern frontier and coastline with the
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that France would intervene on behalf of Russia if the Ottomans did not cease these attempts, the
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Relocation from Crimea to Katerynoslav lasted July 26 – November 24, 1778
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in 1783 and an end to the over three century-long existence of the Crimean Khanate.
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Unlike the Greeks, Armenians were relocated to the newly established settlement of
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A desire to eliminate ethnic tensions between Tatars and Christians within Crimea
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induce an annexation of Crimea, Pyotr Rumyantsev stated to Catherine the Great:
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the Ottoman Empire refused to recognize Şahin Giray's legitimacy, with Sultan
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in February 1778, as well as a request from metropolitan bishop of Crimea
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was appointed in place of Prozorovsky to implement the relocation.
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Within the Russian Empire, the resettlement was greatly praised.
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While some in the Russian court, such as military head of Crimea
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Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipropetrovsk
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Map depicting the locations Greeks and Armenians were resettled
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that Crimean Christians be made subjects of the Russian state,
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A desire to bring about an annexation of the Crimean peninsula
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in November 1779, named after the South Caucasian city of
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preparations, prompting him to write a letter to Russian
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region, itself abandoned shortly antecedently with the
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A desire to colonize the unpopulated Pryazovia region
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Emigration of Christians from the Crimea (1778)
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Infobox event
considered for merging
Crimea
Pryazovia
Katerynoslav
Russian Empire
Russian Empire
Ukrainian
Russian
Greek
Armenian
Crimea
Russian Empire
Pryazovia
Catherine the Great
Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)
Ottoman Empire
Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky
Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji
Sahib II Giray
uk
Devlet IV Giray
uk
Şahin Giray
Abdulhamid I
Selim IIII Giray
uk
Alexander Stakhiev

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