Sentence examples for Crimea from high-quality English sources.

• Crimea is an autonomous republic within Ukraine.

• (Mr Belaventsev is now presidential envoy to Crimea.)

• Southern Ukraine, especially the region of Crimea, also has strong ties to Russia.

• Like most economic activity connected to Crimea, the bridge is a target of U.S. sanctions.

• Crimea and Sebastopol are clearly not under threat from Ukraine.

• Crimea, Ukrainian Krym, also spelled Krim, autonomous republic, southern Ukraine.

• RUSSIA’S unacknowledged war in Ukraine did not start with the annexation of Crimea.

• In his defence, he said he did not know how to file an e-declaration for land in Crimea.

Use Crimea in a sentence.

• Crimea then joined Russia in a referendum that Ukraine and Western leaders consider illegal.

• Putin an international pariah for a while, but Russia still remains firmly in control of Crimea.

• Vladimir Putin characterized it as an effort to protect Russian citizens and military assets in Crimea.

• Mr Putin led a meeting of his security council in Crimea last week, as the Black Sea Fleet staged war games.

• Each of these operations was dressed up in legal procedure, be it a referendum in Crimea or a show trial in the case of Yukos.

• On March 16 a referendum was held in Crimea, and 97 percent of voters stated a preference for leaving Ukraine and joining Russia.

• The Tatars were allowed to return to Crimea only in 1989, and the majority of them strongly opposed the annexation of the peninsula by Russia in 2014.

• When the Revolution of 1917 led to the collapse of the Russian Empire, the remaining Crimean Tatars declared Crimea to be an independent democratic republic.

Crimea sentence examples

• Kaffa nevertheless fell in 1475 to the khan of Crimea, an ally of the Turks, who sometimes called it Kuchuk-Stambul (Little Stambul or Constantinople) or Krym-Stambul (Stambul of Crimea).

• Russian state television described the modern pro-European Ukrainians who ousted their corrupt and authoritarian president Viktor Yanukovych as nationalists and Nazi collaborators, planning to annihilate Russians in Crimea.

• The later empire never absorbed Greece itself, but it swept up the Crimea, a Byzantine outpost scattered with antiquities, and the attendant myth of Crimea as Russia's very own Arcadia survived into the Soviet period.

• The North Crimea Canal, which was completed in 1971, originates in the reservoir; the canal, 250 miles (400 km) long, is designed for irrigation of the steppes of the Black Sea Lowland and northern Crimea and for the creation of a water route from the Dnieper to the Sea of Azov.