Kadikoi ( crh, Qadıköy, russian: Кадыкой) in the 19th century was a village on the

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, in

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, about one mile north of

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. The

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(also known as the Battle of Kadikoi to Russian historians) was fought on the hills and valleys to the north of Kadikoi in 1854. The village was later known as ''Kadykovka'' (Кадыковка), and ''Pryhorodne'' (Пригородне). Currently it's merged into

city, and is known as

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Kadykovka. Its original Crimean Tatar name means literally "village of a judge" (qadı - judge, köy - village). Robert Gibb - The Thin Red Line

The

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built a

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on a hillside near the village, to up haul trains carrying men and

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. Another hill, slightly to the north and east of Kadikoi, was defended by six companies of the

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(the Sutherland Highlanders, around 600 soldiers), a Turkish battalion (around 1,000 soldiers), and a six-gun battery of field artillery. The hill was attacked by a large force of Russian cavalry on 25 October 1854, but repulsed by the British " Thin Red Line". The Heavy Brigade charged the stalled Russian cavalry in the South Valley slightly to the north, followed later by the

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in the North Valley, a few miles further north.

References

Crimean War Merged settlements in Ukraine {{Ukraine-hist-stub