The ethnogenesis and history of the Crimean Tatars and Kumyks are a fertile topic for many researchers. At the beginning of the XX century, Crimean Tatar scholar Bekir Choban-Zade wrote: “Kumyks are nothing but part of the Balkar-Karachay and North Crimean Turks, as indicated, in addition to linguistic factors, by numerous legends that have been preserved among modern Kumyks.” Consider the most interesting facts of the common past of the Crimean Tatars and Kumyks. According to qumuq.ru
