Panticapaeum
Ancient city
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 600 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 45.351, 36.469
Why it was abandoned
☢️ Disaster
Detected automatically from the text: Пантикапейское землетрясение
History
Pantikapaion was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of Crimea, which the Greeks called Taurica. The city lay on the western side of the Cimmerian Bosporus, and was founded by Milesians in the late 7th or early 6th century BC, on a hill later named Mount Mithridat. Its ruins now lie in the modern city of Kerch.