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Bakhchisaray (, , ), a town in Central Crimea , centre of the Bakhchisaray Raion (district), former capital of the Crimean Khanate . The town is best known among Russian speakers for its Romantic associations with Alexander Pushkin 's poem ''The Fountain of Bakhchisaray'' (1822). There are various ways to spell the town's name: original باغچهسرای ( UniPers bâqce sarây) and means ''the Garden Palace''. Located in a narrow valley of the Çürük Suv river which is known as an old local center of civilization (the first artefacts of human presence in the valley date up to mesolith). The settlements existed in the valley before Bakhchisaray was founded (Qırq Yer (modern Çufut Qale ) fortress, Salaçıq and Eski Yurt ) are nowadays incorporated into the urban area of the modern Bakhchisaray. Bakhchisaray, first mentioned 1502 , was established as the new khan residence by the Crimean khan Sahib I Giray in 1532. Since then, it was the capital of the Crimean Khanate and the center of political and cultural life of the Crimean Tatar people. After Occupation Of The Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire in 1783, it was turned in an ordinary town, having lost administrative significance. However, it remained the cultural center of the Crimean Tatars until the "Sürgün" (deportation on 18 May 1944 ). ''Hansaray'' - the palace of the Crimean Khans, still preserved in the town as a museum, showing the only example of Crimean Tatar palace architecture in the world. EXTERNAL LINKS |