Pantikapaion/Bosp(h)orus
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: David Braund
Creators: David Braund
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Diane Braund
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Last modified
Jan 13, 2025 09:26 PM
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History
The main city and port of the Kimmerian Bosporus, founded by Miletus in the late seventh or early sixth centuries B.C. Modern Kerch.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/854719
45.350983375, 36.4685796815
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Panticapaeum (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Apol (unspecified date range)
- Less than certain: Apollonia (unspecified date range)
- Bosphorus (unspecified date range)
- Bosporus (unspecified date range)
- Kaisareia (30 BC - AD 300)
- Panticapaeum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Παντικάπαιον (Pantikapaion: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 640)
- None
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None
settlement, port
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 87 K2 Pantikapaion/Bosp(h)orus
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kerch' UKR
David Braund, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, and Diane Braund, 'Pantikapaion/Bosp(h)orus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/854719> [accessed: 25 March 2025]
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