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- proper noun
Crimea , a peninsula of southernUkraine in theBlack Sea .
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The two countries were at odds over the future of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, based on the Crimean peninsula, a region inhabited mostly by Russians.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The two countries were at odds over the future of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, based on the Crimean peninsula, a region inhabited mostly by Russians.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The two countries were at odds over the future of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, based on the Crimean peninsula, a region inhabited mostly by Russians.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The two countries were at odds over the future of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, based on the Crimean peninsula, a region inhabited mostly by Russians.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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See how the Crimean peninsula is joined to mainland Russia - just a narrow isthmus, eh?
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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Even if you could, they know exactly where we'd go - there's only one route "- and I pointed at his map -" through the neck of the Crimean peninsula at - what's it called?
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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It will allow Russia to keep a strategic military presence beyond its borders until 2043, a quarter-century beyond the end of its current lease for the naval base on Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.
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Russia's Black Sea Fleet, stationed since the 18th century on the Crimean peninsula in what is now Ukraine, is a looming reminder for Ukrainian nationalists of the Kremlin's continued influence since Ukraine gained independence in 1991.
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Russia's Black Sea Fleet, stationed since the 18th century on the Crimean peninsula in what is now Ukraine, is a looming reminder for Ukrainian nationalists of the Kremlin's continued influence since Ukraine gained independence in 1991.
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Currently, the port hosting the Russian Black Sea fleet is the city of Sevastopol, an independent municipality of Ukraine, and, with a population of 379,000, the largest city of the Crimean peninsula.
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