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
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 30, 2022 09:25 AM
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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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/854719
45.350983375, 36.4685796815
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Panticapaeum (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 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)
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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, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/854719> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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