ALMA RIVER (UKRAINE)


The 'Alma' (, ) is a small river in Crimea. Its mouth is located half-way between Eupatoria and Sevastopol. ''Alma'' is a Crimean Tatar for an "apple". Near the Alma river the allied British, French, and Ottoman armies defeated the Russians under Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov September 20, 1854.

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