The ethnonym “Tatars” in Crimean Tatar Literature of the late 19th – early 20th centuries.

The article presents the results of a scientific study of works of Crimean Tatar literature of the late 19th – early 20th centuries on the subject of the use of the ethnonym “Tatars” and words and phrases derived from it in the meaning of “Crimean Tatars” / “Crimean Tatar”. We used poetry and prose as well as examples of drama by almost all the best known Crimean Tatar authors of the specified period. The results of the study clearly show that the term “Tatars” and its derivatives were used in this mea­ning in an absolutely dominant number of cases and by almost all authors.