Yenikale

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Yenikale

Yeni-Kale (; ; ; , also spelled as Yenikale and Eni-Kale) is a fortress built by Ottoman Turks

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
in 1699–1706 located in the North-East part of Kerch

Kerch

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
, then Crimean Khanate

Crimean Khanate

The Crimean Khanate or the Khanate of Crimea was a Crimean Tatars state from 1441 to 1783. Its native name was Crimean Yurt . The khanate was by far the longest-lived of the Turkic peoples khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde....
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Yeni-Kale (; ; ; , also spelled as Yenikale and Eni-Kale) is a fortress built by Ottoman Turks

Ottoman Empire

Kerch

Ukraine

Crimean Khanate

Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
(yeni - new, kale - fortress). The fortress was built under the guidance of Goloppo, who was an Italian

Italian people

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convert to Islam

Islam

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. Several French

France

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engineers also took part in the construction.

Yeni-Kale was armed with powerful cannon

Cannon

A cannon is any tubular piece of artillery, that uses gunpowder or other usually explosive-based propellants to launch a projectile over a distance....
s and took an important strategical place on the coast of Kerch Strait. The fortress occupied area of 25,000 m² and had two powder-magazines, arsenal, water reservoir, living houses, bath-house and mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. Muslims often refer to the mosque by its Arabic name, masjid, ? . The word "mosque" in English refers to all types of buildings dedicated for Islamic worship, although there is a distinction in Arabic between the smaller, privately owned mosque and the larger, "collective" mosque ,...
. About 800 Turkish and 300 Crimean Tatar

Crimean Tatar

Crimean Tatar may refer to:* Crimean Tatars, ethnic group* Crimean Tatar language, language of the Crimean Tatars...
soldiers were garrisoned in Yeni-Kale. The weak spot of the fortress was a lack of drinking water

Drinking water

Drinking water is water that is of sufficiently high quality so that it can be consumed or utilized without risk of immediate or long term harm....
in the area, so an underground water-pipe was made to bring water from a source located several kilometres away from the fortress. Yeni-Kale was served as a residence of pasha

Pasha

Pasha or pacha, formerly bashaw, was a high rank in the Ottoman Empire political system, typically granted to governors and generals....
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In the summer of 1771 Russian Army invaded Crimea

Crimea

Crimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is an autonomous republic of Ukraine located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name....
. Turks abandoned Yeni-Kale and after the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca in 1774, Kerch

Kerch

Kerch is a city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, is an important industrial, transport and tourist centre of Ukraine. The name comes from Old East Slavic ??????? which means throat, alluding to a narrow strait in front of the town ....
and the fortress of Yenikale were ceded to Russia. In the 19th century it was used by Russians as military hospital for a short period of time, but later the fortress was completely deserted.

Today the fortress of Yeni-Kale is an impressive historical site. The neighboring district of Kerch

Kerch