A khanate named for this region changed hands via 
A khanate named for this region changed hands via the Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji. Ottoman general Gedik Ahmed Pasha conquered lands in this region that were once colonies of Genoa, including the port which may have introduced the Black Death to Europe called Kaffa. Florence Nightingale served as a nurse in this region. A disastrous excursion by a cavalry unit in this region was led by the Earl of Cardigan as part of a larger successful siege of its port city of Sevastopol. For 10 points, identify this peninsula, the site of the Battle of Balaclava in a namesake war in which France and Britain stopped Russian gains against the Ottomans in the Black Sea.
A khanate named for this region changed hands via the Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji.
Crimean Peninsula [or The Crimea; or Krym; or Qirim] 