aegean-okra:Ancient Greek and Byzantine heritage of Crimea1. Ruins of a fortified Ancient Greek farm
aegean-okra:Ancient Greek and Byzantine heritage of Crimea1. Ruins of a fortified Ancient Greek farmhouse. (Heracleian Peninsula, Crimea)2-3. Ruins of the Byzantine Church in Chersonesos (Sevastopol, Crimea)4. Artificial caves under the Rock of Ay Todor are remnants of a small Greek monastery of the Byzantine times. (Çilter Qoba, Crimea)5. Ruins of an Ancient Greek household. (Bel Avuz, Crimea)6. Ruins of a tower built in the 2nd century B. C. by Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus.(Qara Töbe, Crimea, Ukraine)7. General View on Chersonesos (Sevastopol, Crimea)8. Ruins of Cymmericum, an ancient fortress on the top of Mt Opuq, recall the times when the whole country was known to the Ancient Greeks as Cymmeria, the land of the mysterious barbarians at the very edge of then known world. (Mt Opuq, Crimea)9. Ruins of the watchtower of an Ancient Greek household, one of the dozens scattered around the modern city of Sevastopol. Greek settlers fortified their coastal homesteads against the Scythians living on the neighboring plains. (Sevastopol, Crimea)10. A rounded niche carved in solid rock was originally an ancient wine-press used by the locals some two thousand years ago. Subsequent climate changes have made it impossible to grow grapes in this barren landscape. (Cymmericum Ancient Settlement, Mt Opuq, Crimea)by Oleksa Haiworonski -- source link
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