Eupatoria street

Rue d'Eupatoria is a public street located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. It starts at 2 ter, rue Julien-Lacroix and ends at 1, rue de la Mare. It runs along the north side of the church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix de Ménilmontant.

160 meters long and 8 meters wide, this route opened on the former municipality of Belleville by a decree of October 23, 1852 under the name of “rue de l'Alma” and took its current name by a decree of 24 August 1864.

The old appellation also related to the Crimean War, the change being due to the fact that before its extension Paris was already endowed with a Alma bridge, a Alma square and an avenue of Alma (avenue which will take the name of “avenue George-V” in 1918).

Yevpatoria (Eupatoria in french) is a town in the Crimea on the Black Sea coast, located northwest of Sevastopol.

Approximately from the 7th to the 10th century, Yevpatoria was a khazar establishment. In the Khazarian language, his name was probably Güzliev (literally "beautiful house"). It is then submitted to the Coumans (Kiptchaks), to the Mongols then to the Crimean Khanate. During this period, the locality is called Kezlev by the Crimean Tatars and Gözleve by the Ottomans. The name of Kozlov, used in medieval Russia, is a Russification of the name of the Crimean Tatars.

In 1783, the Russian Empire annexed Crimea including Kezlev. Its name officially became Yevpatoria (Eupatoria) in 1784.

Eupatoria was the landing place for British, French and Turkish troops on 14 September 1854 at the beginning of the Crimean War. The town was briefly occupied by Allied troops (1854). But the fame of this town comes from the Battle of Eupatoria on February 17, 1855, during which the Ottomans successfully defeated an assault by the Russians.

Landing of the French and English troops in Kalamita Bay on 14 September 14, 1854.
In the center, on the white horse and saluting the troops, the Marshal Saint-Arnaud.
Félix-Joseph Barrias (1822-1907), 1859, Versailles Palace Collections

Although the Turkish garrisons at Yevpatoria were strong with more than 35,000 men, the Russian general Stepan Khroulev hoped to take them by surprise on February 17, 1855. His plan failed because the Turkish garrisons and the allied fleet (Franco-British) had anticipated the attack, receiving the Russians with a barrage of fire. Having lost 750 men, Khroulev ordered his men to retreat. So the allies did not allow the Russian army to retake the city. The assault on Yevpatoria was the most important military engagement of the Crimean War during the winter of 1855. This setback led to the dismissal of the commander-in-chief of the Russian armies on land and at sea, Admiral Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov and probably hastened the death of Tsar Nicholas I, who died a few weeks after the battle.

**Battle of Eupatoria by Frédéric Adolphe Yvon (1817 - 1893)**

Alexandre Sergueïevitch Menchikov (1787 - 1869)
Portrait by Franz Krüger, oil on canvas (1851) Hermitage Museum

It is after this battle that the street and the passage of Eupatoria were named.

Address: 20th arrondissement, Paris