Crimea in the Roman era
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The Crimean Peninsula was under partial control of the Roman Empire during 47 BC to c. 340 AD and the 6th to 13th century. The territory under Roman control mostly coincided with the Bosporan Kingdom.
A Greek fresco depicting the goddess Demeter, from Panticapaeum in the ancient Bosporan Kingdom (a client state of the Roman Empire), 1st century AD, Crimea.
Ruins of Panticapaeum, main city of the Bosporan Kingdom during Roman times
Bust of Tiberius Julius Sauromates II (d. 210 AD), from the Acropolis Museum
The "Regnum Bosporanum" during the conquests of the Emperor Trajan (r. 98–117)
Empire of Trebizond
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The Empire of Trebizond or the Trapezuntine Empire was one of the three Byzantine rump states of the Byzantine Empire that existed during the 13th through to the 15th century. The empire consisted of
Crimea in the Roman era
…Crimea under Justinian I and controlled portions of the peninsula well into the Late Middle Ages, particularly through the successor states of the Empire of Trebizond and the Principality of Theodoro. Rome started to dominate the Crimea peninsula (then called Taurica) in the 1st century BC. The initial area of their…
The Hagia Sophia church of Trebizond, which was converted from a museum to mosque in 2013.
Copy of a destroyed fresco depicting Alexios III, his mother Eirene and his wife Theodora, Panagia Theoskepastos Monastery
Alexios III, from the chrysobull he granted to the Dionysiou monastery on Mount Athos.