Re: Maybe that lovely singer
The city of Caffa has a very long history - and definitely impacted Europe. The black death came to Europe from Caffa when it was besieged by the Mongols.
It was founded by the Greeks sometime before Socrates and Plato, and was name Theodosia - the gifts of the gods. It was a essentially colony and trading city with the Scythians (and Aryan-Iranian nomadic tribes). Since that time, like the rest of the peninsula, it has been occupied by pretty much everyone in Eurasia - the Romans, the Goths, the Byzantines, Kaumyks, the Venetians (yes, Italians), the Mongols, everyone. In the 18th century a linguist identified a group speaking "Crimean Gothic" - a germanic language that had remained for over a millennium in the peninsula.
In the 15th century the Tartars finally set up shop there, only to have Peter the Great of Russia take it from them a couple of centuries later. The descendants of these invaders are the Crimean Tartars.
After the Russians took over, the city was renamed Feodosia.
Josef Stalin was a truly evil bastard, and usually he had objectives in the evil that he committed. The exile of the Tartars from Crimea was a form of communal punishment for almost all the male population of Crimean Tartars joining the SS to fight the Soviet Union. So when joining with an evil bastard, just hope you have joined the winning side, and hope that the evil bastard will show some gratitude and not kill you anyway.