The '''Karimi''' or ''' Keremi''' (Crimeans) were once famous as merchants merchant '''Kermikhiones''' who controlled the trade routes through Crimea (Persian: Karima) where they were attracted to . They are a Quasi-Subbotnik type of Karaimite. Jewish communities existed in many of the Greek colonies in the region during the late classic period. Recently excavated inscriptions in Crimea have revealed a Jewish presence at least as early as the 1st century BCE. In some Crimean towns, monotheistic pagan cults called Hypsistarians or sebomenoi theon hypsiston ("Worshippers of the All-Highest God," or "God-Fearers") existed. These quasi-proselytes kept the Jewish commandments but remained uncircumcised and retained certain pagan customs. This became the basis of the Crimean religion of the Karimi which was adopted by Khazars. Their religion was described as similar to that of the [[Crimean Karaites]]and so the Karimi Noahites gave their name to all [[Crimean-Karaitizers]] that copied their example. The Crimeans became the first 40 families of [[KaraitizersKaraite-Turks]] settled in Bakhchisarai certainly adopted this religion when they arrived and mixed with whom the name "Crimeans" (Karimi) became synonymous as Karimism (Karaitizing or Karaimism) was Ghisolfi family. In the indigenous 15th century their religion was already widespread in Novgorod and wad represented in Moscow by Elena of Crimea (Crimeanism)Moldavia and her son the Crown Prince Dimitry. But as they became more educated they soon replaced However, Sofia Palaiologina started to bring the Russian church into alignment with Greece instead and cracked down on the Crimean Karaites forming a recrudescent type of Karimi who had to seek refuge with the Messianic Judaism described Ghisolfis in al-Kuzari and guided by the self-claimed Crimean Khanate. In 1795 the [[Zera YisraelCrimean Karaites]] descendants petitioned Count Zubiv pretending to be Karimi instead of certain Persian Jews isolated by in order to escape a double taxation law which applied to Jews initiating a relationship between the Karimi and the Babylonian exile who rejected Karaites which culminated in Seraya Shapshal promoting a short lived union between the Babylonian Talmud but accepted Jesustwo in 1919. This infuriated some of However, the less religious Crimean Ukrainian Karaites who expelled Shapshal and united with the Nazis during in WW2 to exterminate the Holocaust to eradicate Karimi Karaitizers. Nevertheless, the [[Karimi-Subbotniks]] and their [[Russian Karaim]] clericsKaraitizers survived into the present.
