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The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. The Black Sea is supplied by major rivers, principally the Danube, Dnieper and Dniester.
Paphlagonia (/ ˌ p æ f l ə ˈ ɡ oʊ n i ə /; Greek: Παφλαγονία, romanized: Paphlagonía, modern translit. Paflagonía; Turkish: Paflagonya) was an ancient region on the Black Sea coast of north-central Anatolia, situated between Bithynia to the west and Pontus to the east, and separated from Phrygia (later, Galatia) by a prolongation to the east of the Bithynian Olympus.
Greek city-states first established colonies along the Black Sea coast of Crimea in the 7th or 6th century BC. [1] Several colonies were established in the vicinity of the Kerch Strait, then known as the Cimmerian Bosporus. The density of colonies around the Cimmerian Bosporus was unusual for Greek colonization and reflected the importance of ...
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In the south of the Black Sea the most important colony was Sinope which according to prevailing opinion was founded by Miletus some time around the middle of the 7th century BC. [26] Sinope was founded with a series of other colonies in the Pontic region: Trebizond , Cerasus , Cytorus , Cotyora , Cromne, Pteria , Tium , etc.
Dzharylhach Island - the largest one in the Black Sea (56 km 2) Kalanchak Islands , Oyster Islands and others in the Karkinit Bay, east of Dzharylhach; Nova Zemlya (Нова Земля) - divided with Romania; Orlov Island , Yahorlyk Islands, Siberian Islands, Babyn Island and a few others in the Gulf of Tendra; Snake Island
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Pages in category "Greek colonies on the Black Sea coast" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .