Medieval Crimea

medieval and early modern maritime republic from (1005-1797)

Byzantine Emperor from 685 to 695 and from 705 to 711

Philippicus (; ), born Bardanes (; ) was Byzantine emperor from 711 to 713. He took power in a coup against the unpopular emperor Justinian II, and was deposed in a similarly violent manner nineteen months later. During his brief reign, Philippicus supported monothelitism in Byzantine theological disputes, and saw conflict with the First Bulgarian Empire and the Umayyad Caliphate.

former ethnic group which inhabited the Crimean peninsula

Byzantine theme (administrative district)

Genoese colonies in Crimea and around the Black Sea from the mid-13th century to the late 15th century

Crimean Gothic Greek Orthodox Metropolitan bishop of Doros, and rebel leader

princess consort of Moldavia

thumb|The upper territories make up Perateia Perateia (, "place beyond [the sea]", cf. peraia) was the overseas territory of the Empire of Trebizond, comprising the Crimean cities of Cherson, Kerch and their hinterlands. The territory was probably administered during Byzantine rule from Trebizond before the Comneni established a separate empire a few weeks before the Crusader sack of Constantinople in 1204.

khazar warlord

Khan of the Golden Horde

Byzantine official

1441-1478 process by which the Crimean peninsula was Turkified

reputed Byzantine colony on the Black Sea

Trafficking of people across the Black Sea

thumb | right | alt=Drawing of the battle of Brávellir. | Battle of Brávellir by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine. Bravlin (apparent Cyrillic: "Бравлин") was an apocryphal overlord of the Rus' who supposedly devastated all the Crimea from Kerch to Sougdaia in the last years of the 8th century but was paralyzed when he had entered the church of St. Stephen in Sougdaia.

1346 siege of Genoese colony Caffa