Map of the 18th century - Little Tataria (Crimea + Southern Ukraine)

Map of Little Tataria with the border Kyiv and Belogorodsk provinces. Contains the lands lying near the Dnieper, Don and Donets. Also all of Crimea and part of Kuban with the Black Sea. This is exactly the text placed in the left corner of the map, created back in 1745.

Let me remind you what time this is. This is the interval between the two Russian-Crimean wars: 1736-38 and 1768-1774. There are just over 30 years left before the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire.

Looking at the map is more than interesting. What immediately catches your eye is how distorted the shapes of the Crimean Peninsula are. On this old map it is almost square. Bakhchisarai is drawn near the sea. Yalta, Alushta and other cities of the South Coast are not on the map. Sevastopol and Odessa still exist.

Where Zaporozhye is written on modern maps, the Zaporozhye Sich is drawn.

The absence of roads on it is surprising. The mountains are very conventionally marked.

Download map of Minor Tataria (795 kb)

More modern raster (scanned) maps of Crimea can be found here