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Livadiya, Crimea
Livadiya
(, , ) is an
urban-type settlement
in
Yalta Municipality
of the
Autonomous Republic of Crimea
; a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of
Ukraine
but incorporated by
Russia
as the
Republic of Crimea
. It is located west of
Yalta
. Population:
History
A minor
Crimean Tatar
settlement in the
Middle Ages
, Livadiya was named thus by
Lambros Katsonis
, a Greek
revolutionary
and
Imperial Russian Army
officer, after
Livadeia
,
Greece
, the town he was born in, then part of the
Ottoman Empire
. Katsonis had been granted an estate there by
Empress Catherine II
, which he named thus.
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