Bilohirsk (until 1944 – Karasubazar, uk, Білогірськ, translit=Bilohirsk; russian: Белого́рск, translit=Belogorsk, crh, Qarasuvbazar/Къарасувбазар) is a town and the administrative centre in Belohirsk Raion, one of the raions (districts) of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognised by a majority of countries as part of

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and annexed by

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. Population: The city is located 25 miles east-northeast of

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on the Biiuk Karasu river. The city's both Russian and Ukrainian names literally are translated as "white mountains", and the Crimean Tatar name Qarasuvbazar means "

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on the Karasu river".

History

The site is low, but the town is surrounded by hills, which afford protection from the north wind. The town has a characteristic Crimean Tatar atmosphere. Placed on the high road between

and Kerch, and in the midst of a country rich in

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land,

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s and

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s, Qarasubazar ('black water market') used to be a chief seat of commercial activity in Crimea; including a large slave market but it is gradually declining in importance, though still a considerable centre for the export of fruit. The

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s of Akkaya close by give evidence of early occupation of the area. When in 1736 Khan Fetih Giray was driven by the

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from Bakhchysarayi, he settled at Karasubazar, but next year the town was captured, plundered and burned by the Russian army. Retreating

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shot a number of local people in the streets in 1941. Qarasuvbazar was occupied by the German army from 1941 to 1944 during World War II. During the occupation, the Germans executed the town's Jews in an anti-tank trench. After the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, the town was renamed Belogorsk per Stalinist detatarization policy.

Climate

References

External links

jewishgen.org

The murder of the Jews of Qarasuvbazar
during

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, at

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