Simferopol

Simferopol is a town at the Crimean Peninsula that's because the 2014 annexation of Crimea with the aid of the Russian Federation, the de facto capital metropolis of the Republic of Crimea inside the Russian Federation. De jure, it stays the capital city of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within Ukraine. The reputation of Crimea is disputed among Russia and Ukraine due to the 2014 vote to enroll in Russia, which become held throughout Russian military intervention, and the following annexation.

Simferopol is an important political, financial and shipping hub of the peninsula, and serves as the administrative centre of both Simferopol Municipality and Simferopol District, although it does now not belong to the district. Archaeological proof in Simferopol shows the existence of an historic Scythian city, together called the Scythian Neapolis. The area changed into additionally domestic to a Crimean Tatar metropolis, Aqmescit. After the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire, the town's call was changed to its present Simferopol.