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ROGER FENTON (1819-69)

Tartar labourers

1855

RCIN 2500402

The Tartars settled in the Crimea in the mid-thirteenth century during the expansion of the Mongol Empire. In the Crimea the group gradually incorporated other diverse ethnic peoples, becoming defined by their adoption of Islam and use of a Turkic language. During the Crimean War, thousands of Tartars fled the Crimea for the Ottoman Empire.

From the collection of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII

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