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Greek city and port near Chernomorskoe along the NW Crimean coast.
It was founded in the late 4th-early 3d c. B.C. by Chersonesus. A fortress against
the Scythians, it was built well into enemy territory. It was captured by the
Scythians ca. mid 2d c. B.C. and occupied by them until the early centuries of
our era.
Excavations have revealed remains of fortifications, made of beaten
earth, and ruins of stone dwellings dating from the 1st c. B.C. to the 2d c. A.D.
The finds include pottery and other articles of local make, non-Greek in influence
M. L. Bernhard & Z. S. Ztetyllo, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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