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The last period of the Russo-Turkish War 1768–1774 in the Mirror of the German-language St.Petersburg Newspaper

The war between the Russian and Ottoman Empires was Russia’s first major military conflict under the rule of the Empress Catherine II. As a result of this war, the Russian Empire conquered the vast but sparsely populated areas on the northern coast of the Black Sea and, a little later, the Crimean peninsula. The new country was christened New Russia. This name reappears in the 21st century from oblivion.