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The Black Sea coast of today's Ukraine belonged to the Ottomans and Crimea to the Crimean Khanate, an Ottoman vassal; Podolia was also an Ottoman province from 1672 to 1699.
Kaffa was taken in 1475 and Akkerman in 1484, and for a long time the Black Sea was an Ottoman inner sea; the Crimean Khanate became an Ottoman vassal in the same period. Kamianets was taken in 1672 and the province of Podolia created, then returned by the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699. Crimea and the coast were lost in the Russian wars of the second half of the 18th century.
Gedik Ahmed Pasha, sent by Mehmed II with a fleet of a hundred ships, took the Genoese colony and the whole coast in June 1475.
Bayezid II took the city from Moldavia on 4 August 1484; with it the entire Black Sea coast came under Ottoman control.
On Mehmed IV's Polish campaign the capital of Podolia was taken on 27 August 1672 after a nine-day siege; the Treaty of Buczacz recognised Ottoman rule.
Under the Treaty of Karlowitz the Ottomans evacuated the city.
The Russians besieged and took the city.
During the war that began in 1768 the Russians occupied the city.
The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca returned it to the Ottomans.
Kaffa passed definitively under Russian rule.
The Russians took the city again.
The Treaty of Jassy restored it to Ottoman rule.
In November 1806 the Russian prince Kantakuzino took the city; the 1812 Treaty of Bucharest ceded it to Russia.
The Akkerman Convention between the Ottomans and Russia was signed here.
Source: TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, article “UKRAYNA” (in Turkish) and the atlas's city pages. Present-day borders are used.