BAKHCHI-SARAI (Turkish for "Garden palace"), a town in the Autonomous Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic. Lat. 47' N., Long. 33° 56' E., on the railway tom. S.S.W. of Simferopol. Pop. (1926) 9,55o, mainly Tatar, making morocco leather, sheepskin cloaks, and small metal goods. From the 15th century to 1783 it was the residence of the Tatar Khans of Crimea and is still oriental in appearance. The Khan Sarai, erected in 1519 by Abdul-Sahal-Ghirai, and destroyed 1736, was restored through Potemkin for Catherine II.: it contains tombs of the khans. There are 36 mosques in Bakhchi-Sarai, and 2Y11. east, on almost inac cessible cliffs, is Chufut-Kaleh (Jews' City), formerly the chief seat of the Karaite Jews, now deserted. The Uspenskiy mon astery, on the cliff face between Bakhchi-Sarai and Chufut-Kaleh, was the scene of a great annual pilgrimage on Aug. 15, (29).