Crimea Germans
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The Crimea Germans (De.: Krimdeutsche) were ethnic German settlers who were invited to settle in the Crimea as part of the East Colonization.
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[edit] History
From 1783 onwards, there was a systematic settlement of Russians, Ukrainians, and Germans to the Crimean Peninsula (in what was then the Crimean Khanate) in order to weaken the native population of the Crimean Tatars.
In 1939, two years before the deportation of the Russian Germans to Central Asia, around 60,000 of the 1.1 million inhabitants of Crimea were German.
Not until the Perestroika, Germans were allowed to return to the peninsula again.
[edit] Today
Today, Crimea is just seen as a way to get to Germany for young people of German ancestry. The German reunification brought a rebirth of Crimean-German culture and, since 1994, they have had a small representation in the Crimean Parliament.
Of the 2 million inhabitants of the now Ukrainian Crimea, around 3,000 are of German ancestry.
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- The information in this article is based on that in its German equivalent.
