Crimean People's Republic

The Crimean People's Republic existed from December 1917 to January 1918 in the Crimean Peninsula, a territory currently disputed between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Being at the time a Muslim-majority region, the Crimean People's Republic was the first attempt in the Muslim world to establish a state that was secular (see also Azerbaijan Democratic Republic). In its founding, the Crimean People's Republic was one of many short-lived attempts to create new states after the Russian Revolution of 1917 had caused the Russian Empire to collapse.