Greek Crimea: Difference between revisions

[[Greek city-states]] began establishing [[Greek colonies|colonies]] along the [[Black Sea]] coast of [[Crimea]] in the 7th or 6th century BCE.<ref name="Hammond1959">{{cite book|author=Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond|title=A history of Greece to 322 B.C.|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Y0FoAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=8 August 2013|year=1959|publisher=Clarendon Press|page=109}}</ref> 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 the area. The majority of these colonies were established by [[Ionians]] from the city of [[Miletus]] in [[Asia Minor]].<ref name=Tyritake>{{cite web|last=Twardecki|first=Alfred|title=The Bosporan Kingdom|url=http://kercz.mnw.art.pl/en/bosporan-kingdom|work=Polish Archaeological Mission “Tyritake”|accessdate=31 March 2014}}</ref>