Sudak Municipality
Sudak City Municipality (, , ), officially "the territory governed by the Sudak city council" is one of the 25 regions of the Crimea, Crimean peninsula, currently subject to a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Populat ...
of the
Crimea
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, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of
Ukraine
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and
annexed
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by
Russia
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as the
Republic of Crimea
Crimea, or the Crimean Peninsula, historically also known as the ''Tauric Chersonese'' (Tauric Peninsula, Tauric, Taurica, or Tauris), is a major peninsula in the north of the Black Sea.
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.
Previously, the settlement was known as the Kapsikhor village (). Following the forced deportation of the
Crimean Tatars
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in 1944, the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
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of the
Russian SFSR
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published a decree on May 18, 1948, renaming the settlement along with many others throughout Crimea from their native Crimean Tatar names to their current variants.
Morske is located on Crimea's southern shore on the
Black Sea
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at an elevation of . Its population was 2,245 in the
2001 Ukrainian census
The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.Choban-Kule fortification are located near the settlement.