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Theodosia (Russian: Феодосия; Ukrainian: Феодосія; Greek: Θεοδωσία; Crimean Tatar/Turkish: Kefe) is a port and resort city in southern Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of Crimea at coordinates 45.0333 N, 35.3833 E. Its name is also transliterated as Feodosiya, Feodosiia (Ukraine's official romanized spelling - see Romanization of Ukrainian), Feodosija or Feodosia. The Crimean Tatar language or Crimean-Turkish (in its own script: Qırımtatar tili, Qırım Tatar dili resp. ...
Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. ...
A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation. ...
Map of the Black Sea. ...
The Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Russian transliteration: Avtonomnaya Respublika Krym, Russian: ÐÐ²Ñ‚Ð¾Ð½Ð¾Ð¼Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð ÐµÑпублика Крым, Ukrainian: Ðвтономна РеÑпубліка Крим, , pronounced cry-MEE-ah in English) is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ...
Romanization or Latinization of Ukrainian denotes a system for representing the Ukrainian language in Latin letters. ...
History
The city was founded under the name of Theodosia by Greek colonists from Miletos in the 6th century BC. (See also List of traditional Greek place names.) Noted for its rich agricultural lands, on which its trade depended, it was destroyed by the Huns in the 4th century AD. In Greek mythology, Miletus was the founder of the city described below. ...
(7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC - other centuries) (600s BC - 590s BC - 580s BC - 570s BC - 560s BC - 550s BC - 540s BC - 530s BC - 520s BC - 510s BC - 500s BC - other decades) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 5th and 6th centuries BC were...
This is a list of traditional Greek place names. ...
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(3rd century - 4th century - 5th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ...
Theodosia remained a minor village for much of the next nine hundred years. It was at various times part of the sphere of influence of the Khazars (excavations have revealed Khazar artifacts dating back to the ninth century) and of the Byzantine Empire. Like the rest of the Crimea, it fell under the domination of the Kipchaks and was conquered by the Mongols in the 1230s. A sphere of influence is a metaphorical region of political influences surrounding a country or a region of economic influence around an urban area. ...
The site of the Khazar fortress at Sarkel. ...
The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centred at its capital in Constantinople. ...
The Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Russian transliteration: Avtonomnaya Respublika Krym, Russian: ÐÐ²Ñ‚Ð¾Ð½Ð¾Ð¼Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð ÐµÑпублика Крым, Ukrainian: Ðвтономна РеÑпубліка Крим, , pronounced cry-MEE-ah in English) is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ...
Kipchaks (also Kypchaks, Qipchaqs) are an ancient Turkic people, first mentioned in the historical chronicles of Central Asia in the 1st millennium BC. Their language was also known as Kipchak. ...
Honorary guard of Mongolia. ...
In the late 13th century, traders from Genoa arrived and purchased the town from the ruling Golden Horde. They established a flourishing trading settlement called Caffa or Kaffa, which virtually monopolised trade in the Black Sea area and served as the chief port and administrative centre for the Genoese settlements around the Sea. It came to house one of Europe's biggest slave markets. (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ...
Location within Italy Flag of Genoa Christopher Columbus monument in Piazza Aquaverde Genoa (Italian Genova, Genoese Zena, French Gênes) is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. ...
This article refers to the Mongol state in what is now Russia. ...
It is believed that the devastating pandemic the Black Death entered Europe for the first time via Feodosiya in 1347. It is believed that the bubonic plague first entered Europe with the movements of the Golden Horde. After a protracted siege during which the Mongol army was reportedly withering from the disease, they catapulted the infected corpses over the city walls, infecting the inhabitants. The Genoese traders fled transfering the plague via their ships into the south of Europe, from whence it rapidly spread. This article is about outbreaks of disease. ...
Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411). ...
When the Genoese started intervening in the internal affairs of the Crimean Khanate, the Ottoman commander Gedik Ahmet Pasha seized the city in 1475. Renamed Kefe, it became one of the most important Turkish ports on the Black Sea. It remained under Turkish/Tatar control until the expanding Russian Empire conquered the Crimea in 1783. It was renamed Feodosiya in 1802, a Russian adaptation of the ancient Greek name. The Crimean Khanate (Khanate of Crimea), 1441–1783, the independent state of the Crimean Tatar people. ...
The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Imperial motto El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious (as written in tugra) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital İstanbul ( Constantinople/Asitane/Konstantiniyye ) Sovereigns Sultans of the Osmanli Dynasty Population ca 40 million Area 12+ million km² Establishment 1299 Dissolution October 29, 1923...
Events August 29 - Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England. ...
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1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1802 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Feodosiya is known as the city where the Russian writer Alexander Grin spent the last years of his life and died in 1932. Alexander Grin (Russian: , born August 23, 1880, died July 7, 1932) was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor (Grins fans often refer to this land as Grinlandia). ...
The city was captured twice by the forces of Nazi Germany during World War II, sustaining significant damage in the process. In 1954, it was transferred to the control of the Ukrainian SSR. Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...
World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe...
1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
State motto: Пролетарі вÑÑ–Ñ… країн, єднайтеÑÑ! Official language None. ...
The city today Modern Feodosiya is a popular resort city with a population of about 85,000 people. It has beaches, mineral springs, and mud baths, and is renowned for its many sanatoria and rest homes. Apart from tourism, its economy rests on agriculture and fisheries, with local industries including fishing, brewing and canning. As is the case in much of the rest of the Crimea, most of its population is ethnically Russian and the Ukrainian language is relatively little used there. Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ...
The Brewer, designed and engraved, in the Sixteenth. ...
Canning is a method of preserving food by first heating it to a temperature that destroys contaminating micro-organisms, and then sealing it in air-tight jars or cans. ...
Ukrainian (україÌнÑька моÌва, ukrayins’ka mova) is the official language of Ukraine. ...
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