Feodosiya

Feodosia, Kerch was founded as a Greek colonists , natives of Miletus (Greek Μίλητος) - the most powerful and richest of the Ionian cities of Asia Minor in the sixth century BC. Translated from the Greek God-given .

In the fourth century BC. Oe.the city was named Ardabda ( HPA - Ossetian Hardy ) - translated semibozhnaya and Alans settled . . At the same time, was destroyed by Huns.

in the V century the city came under the control of the Roman (Byzantine) Empire , in the VI century, was captured by the Khazars , and then went back to Byzantium.

The heyday of the city occurred after the Genoese merchants bought a small village in the Golden Horde and established in its place a real city , which had about 70tysyach citizens.

It was a port city, which was called Kaffa .He monopolized the trade in the Black Sea, and served as the main port and control center of the Genoese colony in the northern Black Sea coast . It was the theater and its mint ,

In 1475 Cuff with all the Genoese possessions passed into the possession of the Ottoman Empire.

Then he called Kef In those times there was the largest in the Northern Black Sea slave market , where thousands of slaves were sold annually , captured by Crimean Tatars during raids on the Ukrainian, Russian , Polish lands.

In 1774, on Kuchuk Kainarji the world, he went to Russia and was called again 1804godu Feodosia.

In the nineteenth century in the town he lived and worked great marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky .In 1892-1895 was held in Feodosia Railway, which regularly serves today, and in 1899 built a new port .

passes through the town highway Simferopol- Kerch.

Today is a resort famous for its sandy beaches and a gentle sea.

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