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Crimean Tatar children.

Detail of a portrait of Agha ( Ottoman Empire ) | Agha Dedesh at the court of King John II Casimir of Poland | John II Casimir. The nomadic part of the Crimean Tatars and all the Nogays were cattle breeders.

Crimea had important trading ports where the goods arrived via the Silk Road were exported to the Ottoman Empire and Europe.

Crimean Khanate had many large, beautiful, and lively cities such as the capital Bahçeseray, Gözleve ( Yevpatoria ), Karasu Bazaar ( Karasu-market ) and Aqmescit ( White-mosque ) having numerous hans ( caravansarais and merchant quarters ), tanners, and mills.

Many monuments constructed under the Crimean Khanate were destroyed or left in ruins after the Russian invasion.

Mosques, in particular were demolished or remade into Orthodox churches.

The settled Crimean Tatars were engaged in trade, agriculture, and artisanry.

Crimea was a center of wine, tobacco, and fruit cultivation.

Bahçeseray kilims ( oriental rugs ) were exported to Poland, and knives made by Crimean Tatar artisans were deemed the best by the Caucasian tribes.

Crimea was also renowned for manufacture of silk and honey.