Jurchi

Jurchi lay in the open steppe of northern Crimea, near the road from Perekop to Bakhchysarai. A small settlement recorded as Yurtchu in the late eighteenth century later bore the name Jurchi. Its position placed it between the fortified entrance to the peninsula and the inland seat of the Crimean khans. The level countryside around it formed part of the broad steppe that stretches south from the Perekop isthmus.