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The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Ancient Greek: Βασιλεία τοῦ Κιμμερικοῦ Βοσπόρου, romanized: Basileía tou Kimmerikou Bospórou; Latin: Regnum Bospori), was an ancient Greco-Scythian state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus, centered in the present-day Strait of Kerch.
The Bosporan kings were the rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom, an ancient Hellenistic Greco-Scythian state centered on the Kerch Strait (the Cimmerian Bosporus) and ruled from the city of Panticapaeum. Panticapaeum was founded in the 7th or 6th century BC; the earliest known king of the Bosporus is Archaeanax , who seized control of the city c ...
Tmutarakan [1] (Russian: Тмутарака́нь, romanized: Tmutarakán', IPA: [tmʊtərɐˈkanʲ]; Old East Slavic: Тъмуторокань, romanized: Tǔmutorokanǐ) [2] was a medieval principality of Kievan Rus' and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, between the late 10th and 11th centuries.
The Army of the Bosporan Kingdom. Translated by Sekunda, Nicholas. Łódź: Oficyna Naukowa MS. ISBN 978-8385874034. Munk Højte, Jakob (2009). Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom. Aarhus University Press. Numismatic. Rare and Unique Coins of Bosporan Kingdom. Bulletin of the Odesa Numismatics Museum. Issues 7,8,9. 2001. Odesa. Ukraine.
Rhadamsades became king of the Bosporan Kingdom in 309, succeeding Theothorses. [3] [4] [5] Nothing is known of his origin and relationship to other kings.Like his predecessor Theothorses, his name is of Iranian origin, [1] which could indicate that he was a Sarmatian or Alan tribal leader or nobleman who seized power, rather than a genuine member of the previous Bosporan ruling Tiberian ...
Like many of the other late Bosporan kings, Rhescuporis III is known mainly from coinage, meaning that the historical events of his reign are largely unknown. His coins are known from the period 211–228. [1] He is known from an inscription to have been the son of his predecessor, Sauromates II. [2]
Sometime between 27 and 17 BC, Augustus formally recognised Asander as king of Bosporan Kingdom. According to Strabo, Asander blocked the isthmus of the Chersonesus ( Chersonesus Tauricus , modern Crimea ) near Lake Maeotis (the Sea of Azov ) with a wall which was 360 stadia long ( 53 kilometres, 35 miles) and had ten towers for every stadium.
Spartocus inherited the throne from his father in 304 BC, after his father's unexpected death during his return from Sindia. [1] Upon assuming the throne, he became the first Bosporan ruler to take the title of Basileus, [2] likely following the example of contemporary Hellenistic kings such as the Antigonids, Lysimachids, Seleucids and Ptolemies.