Kingdom of Bosporus
| Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus | ||||||||||
| Βασίλειον τοῦ Κιμμερικοῦ Βοσπόρου | ||||||||||
| Independent Kingdom (c.480 ~107 BC) Kingdom of Pontus (107–63 BC) Client Kingdom of the Roman Empire (63 BC – 370 AD) |
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 Map showing the early growth of the Bosporan Kingdom, before its annexation by Mithridates VI of Pontus.
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| Capital | Panticapaeum | |||||||||
| Languages | Greek | |||||||||
| Religion | Greek polytheism | |||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
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| • | 389 BC | Leukon I | ||||||||
| • | c. 341 AD | Rhescuporis VI | ||||||||
| Historical era | Antiquity | |||||||||
| • | Established | c. 438 BC | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | c. 370 AD | ||||||||
| Currency | Pontic stater Roman coinage |
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| Today part of | disputed between  Russia /  Ukraine
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Russia (inland territory) Ukraine (inland territory)
The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Greek: Βασίλειον τοῦ Κιμμερικοῦ Βοσπόρου, Basileion tou Kimmerikou Bosporou), was an ancient state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus, the present-day Strait of Kerch (it was not named after the more famous Bosphorus beside Istanbul at the other end of the Black Sea). It was the first truly 'Hellenistic' state in the sense of a mixed population adopted the Greek language and civilization. The Bosporan Kingdom became the longest surviving Roman client kingdom. The 1st and 2nd centuries BC saw a period of renewed golden age of the Bosporan state. It was a Roman province from 63 to 68 AD, under Emperor Nero. At the end of the 2nd century AD, King Sauromates II inflicted a critical defeat on the Scythians and included all the territories of the Crimea in the structure of his state.
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