Pantikapaion/Bosp(h)orus

settlement · 550 BC – 640 AD

The main city and port of the Kimmerian Bosporus, founded by Miletus in the late seventh or early sixth centuries B.C. Modern Kerch.

Coordinates

45.35098, 36.46858

Also known as

Apol, Apollonia, Bosphorus, Bosporus, Kaisareia, Panticapaeum (la), Panticapaeum (la), Pantikapaion (grc), Παντικάπαιον (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• OpenHistoricalMap · CC0 1.0
  © OpenHistoricalMap contributors
• OpenHistoricalMap · CC0 1.0
  © OpenHistoricalMap contributors
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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