Kalay

Qalay was a Crimean Tatar village in the steppe east of Dzhankoi, in the northern part of the peninsula. It appears in the records of the late Crimean Khanate, when the settlement belonged to the district of Karasubazar. After Russia annexed Crimea in 1783, it was assigned to the Perekop district. Its open surroundings formed part of the dry steppe stretching toward the shallow waters of the Sivash.