Mykolaiv Oblast
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Mykolaiv Oblast, also referred to as Mykolaivshchyna, is an oblast of Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Mykolaiv. At the most recent estimate, the population of the oblas
Ruins of Olbia
Mykolaiv, capital and largest city of the oblast and a major port city
Pervomaisk, second largest city of the oblast, created by merger of the towns of Bohopil, Holta and Olviopol
Pivdennoukrainsk, third largest city of the oblast, home to the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant
Pontic Olbia
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Pontic Olbia or simply Olbia is an archaeological site of an ancient Greek city on the shore of the Southern Bug estuary in Ukraine, near the village of Parutyne. The archaeological site is protected
Mykolaiv Oblast
…Kipchaks, the Mongol Empire, Lithuania, the Crimean Khanate, the Ottoman Empire, Poland, and Russia. Historic cities of greatest importance were ancient Olbia and the late medieval port city of Ochakiv. In the late 17th and 18th centuries the tripoint of three early modern great powers, the Polish–Lithuanian…
The ruins of Olbia
Two coins from Olbia (3rd-1st century BC) depicting the bearded head of the river-god Borysthenes