Immediately to the north of the town the A470 climbs steeply to the Crimea Pass and meets the A5 at Betws-y-Coed, towards Wrexham and Shrewsbury.

A right turn beyond the power station takes the road on to Ffestiniog and Blaenau Ffestiniog before heading over the Crimea Pass to Dolwyddelan.

* www. geograph. co. uk: photos of the Crimea Pass and surrounding area

However, in Crimea and some parts of eastern Ukraine — areas with substantial ethnic Russian minorities — use of Russian is widespread in official business.

* August 19 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup.

* Gordian III evacuates the Cimmerian cities in the Bosphorus ( Crimea ), as the territory is now controlled by the Goths.

Kerch (,,, Old East Slavic: Кърчевъ, Ancient Greek: Pantikapaion, ) is a city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, an important industrial, transport and tourist centre of Ukraine.

The Crimea is an autonomous Republic within Ukraine.

The population of Sevastopol proper is 342, 451 ( 2001 ), making it the 15th largest city in Ukraine and the largest in Crimea.

It has been suggested that Crimea is named after the Cimmerians as well as the Armenian city of Gyumri.

The name " Crimea " is traceable to the Crimean Tatar word qırım ( my steppe, hill ), and the peninsula was known as Taurica, ( Peninsula ) of the Tauri, in antiquity ( Strabo 7. 4. 1 ; Herodotus 4. 99. 3, Amm.

He wanders, is purified, and eventually marries his cousin Hermione, who lives in Sparta ( he is also said to have traveled to Crimea to visit Iphigenia, who in some stories miraculously survived her father's attempt to sacrifice her to Artemis ).

According to President Roosevelt, " if we attempt to evade the fact that we placed somewhat more emphasis on the Lublin Poles than on the other two groups from which the new government is to be drawn I feel we will expose ourselves to the charges that we are attempting to go back on the Crimea decision.

Pseudocenoceras is found in the Crimea and in Libya.

The Battle of the Alma ( 20 September 1854 ), which is usually considered the first battle of the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ), took place just south of the River Alma in the Crimea.

Crimea, a little " continent " of its own, is a popular vacation destination for tourists for swimming or suntaning on the Black Sea with its warm climate, rugged mountains, plateaus and ancient ruins.

The holiday is also celebrated and observed by many parts of Central Asia, South Asia, Northwestern China, Crimea and some groups in the Balkans.

What is certain is that at the beginning of April 1960, Nikita Khrushchev held a meeting at his summer residence in Crimea, discussing an array of defense industry issues.

Still another opinion is that it is a contracted word ' Tavrichanka ' for rugged carriages known in Southern Ukraine and Crimea, derived from the name " Taurida " for this area.

The Republic of Crimea within the country has a degree of autonomy and is governed by its Cabinet of Ministers and legislative Council.

Today, the Hanafi school is predominant in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, China as well as in Mauritius, Turkey, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, North Caucasus Republics, Russia, Crimea peninsula in Ukraine and Uyghuristan ( Xinjiang ) in China.

Yalta (, ) is a resort city in Crimea, southern Ukraine, on the north coast of the Black Sea.

Prior to the annexation of the Crimea, the Crimean Greeks were moved to Mariupol in 1778 ; one of the villages they established nearby is also called Yalta.

According to Soviet geographers, most of their country is located in the temperate zone, which for them included all of the European portion except the southern part of Crimea and the Caucasus, all of Siberia, the Soviet Far East, and the plains of Soviet Central Asia and the southern Kazakh Republic.

He was founder and for many years bishop-then archbishop, then metropolitan-of the Diocese of Sourozh, the Patriarchate of Moscow's diocese for Great Britain and Ireland ( the name ' Sourozh ' is that of the historical episcopal see in Sudak in the Crimea ).

The language survived as a domestic language in the Iberian peninsula ( modern Spain and Portugal ) as late as the 8th century, and Frankish author Walafrid Strabo wrote that it was still spoken in the lower Danube area and in isolated mountain regions in Crimea in the early 9th century ( see Crimean Gothic ).

Vyalova cave ( пещера Вялова ) is a cave in a lower plateau of the Chatyrdag mountain, Crimea.

Vyalova caves system is a system of 3 caves that are located on a lower plateau of the Chatyrdag mountain, Crimea.

In 1594 a very strong Tatar raid, carried by about 20, 000-30, 000 men led by the Khan of Crimea, Ğazı II Giray ( Gazi Gerej II ) plundered Pokucie and moved to Hungary through mountain passes, in order to plunder Habsburg lands.

Eskender Fazıl, from his poem Stand Up ( Çatırdağ is a mountain in Crimea )

After some time Vasilyev started to draw Crimea, gradually beginning to feel the attraction to its mountain views.

At one time there was an inn at the summit of the pass, popularly known as " the Crimea ".

Their ships were blown north to the Maeotian Lake ( the Sea of Azov ) onto the shore of Scythia near the cliff region ( today's southeastern Crimea ).

Crimea, north Caucasus.

* Einsatzgruppe D ( SS-Gruppenführer Dr. Otto Ohlendorf ) to Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and, during 1942, the north Caucasus.

A vassal state that never became a province was the Khanate of Crimea in the region around Crimea, north of Black Sea-it would fall to Russia instead ( 1774 – 83 ; later in modern Ukraine ).

They were divided into the following groups: Budjak ( from the Danube to the Dniester ), Yedisan ( from the Dniester to the Bug ), Jamboyluk ( Bug to Crimea ), Yedickul ( north of Crimea ) and Kuban.

The spit is located between the town of Henichesk, Ukraine, on the north and the north-eastern shores of Crimea on the south.

Khersons ’ ka oblast ’; also referred to as Khersonshchyna – ) is an oblast ( province ) in southern Ukraine, just north of Crimea.

The Kherson Oblast is bordered by the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the north, the Black Sea and the Crimea on the south, the Mykolayiv Oblast on the west, and the Azov Sea and the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on the east.

Scammony ( Convolvulus scammonia ) is a bindweed native to the countries of the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin ; it grows in bushy waste places, from Syria in the south to the Crimea in the north, its range extending westward to the Greek islands, but not to northern Africa or Italy.

The Axis forces were divided into those of Panzergruppe 1 that had suffered significant loses in matériel, but retained combat effectiveness, and the large infantry formations of the German and Romanian armies that attempted to advance from the West to meet the armored troops north of Crimea, the initial strategic objective of Army Group South.

They were divided into the following groups: Budjak ( from the Danube to the Dniester ), Yedisan ( from the Dniester to the Bug ), Jamboyluk ( Bug to Crimea ), Yedickul ( north of Crimea ) and Kuban.