Tag: Crimea

In 106 BC, the Greek Bosporan Kingdom, with its capital at Panticapaeum (modern-day Kerch) and Chersonesus, became part of another Hellenistic state, the Pontic Kingdom, along with a significant part of Crimea (Taurica). As a result of a military campaign. The Pontic State, dominating Asia Minor the...

It was May of 1997, and I was about to leave my job with Deloitte and Touche as an auditor in Kyiv and return home to the United States. Finally, an American friend from home, Kirsten, was coming for a visit. We planned for her to fly into Kyiv, spend a few days there, and then travel with me to L&r...