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GREECE,ANCIENT BLACK SEA AREA,CRIMEA,PANTIKAPAION,THRACE 3rd-4th CENTURY 1 UNIT (c.340-325 BCE) A outpost of Greek civilization, modern day Kerch in the disputed Crimea region has been a fortress city for hundreds of years. In ancient times, it was at a key location where the Russian Steppe met the Greek World across Black Sea trade routes that exported grain, wine and salted fish. It became a capital of the Kingdom of Bosporus, outwardly Greek much of the city’s population were of Scythian descent. Following an earthquake in about 70 BCE the city began a slow decline, raids by Ostrogothic and Hunnic raiders in the Late Roman Period saw it totally devastated. |