Tuzla Island
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| Tuzla Native name: острів Коса Тузла |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Strait of Kerch |
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| Area | 3.5 sq. km. |
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 Ukraine |
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| Demographics | |
| Population | 40 (2003)[1] |
Tuzla Island (Ukrainian and Russian: Тузла; Crimean Tatar: Tuzla) is an sand spit island in the middle of the Strait of Kerch near the Crimean Kerch Peninsula in the west and the Taman Peninsula in the east. There was a territorial dispute over the ownership of the island between Ukraine and Russia in October 2003.
[edit] See also
- Tuzla Island conflict
[edit] External links
- ^ Budilov, Michail. "History of one day" (PDF), Newspaper Today #2390 (Kiev), 2006-07-07, pp. 20. (in Russian)
- "A tiny island in the news: the dispute over Tuzla", The Ukrainian Weekly, 2004-01-11. Retrieved on March 5, 2007.
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