Crimea Peninsula

Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, with a population of 2.4 million and the largest city being Sevastopol. The region has been under Russian occupation since 2014 and has a complex history, having been colonized by Greeks, absorbed by the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and later becoming a dependency of the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire. Crimea was annexed by Russia in 1783, but was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1954, and after Ukrainian independence in 1991, the region was granted more autonomy. The peninsula was occupied by Russian forces in 2014 and annexed by Russia, but most countries recognize Crimea as Ukrainian territory.learn more on wikipedia