Possible Clues:

• Scene of conflict for Russians starting Dostoevsky's novel
• A crime committed here on the northern coast of the Black Sea?
• Disorder in Central American war area
• Ukranian peninsula
• War site 1853-56
• Site of 1853-56 war
• Punishable offence by leader of army in war zone
• Coming from America, not Australian but European peninsula
• Site of the Yalta Conference, 1945
• 'Ukrainian peninsula, site of a 19th-century war (6)'