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page 1Milesian colonies in Crimea
Feodosiia
Feodosia (, Feodosiia, Teodosiia; , tr. Feodosiya), also called in English Theodosia (from ), is a city on the Crimean coast of the Black Sea. Feodosia serves as the administrative center of Feodosia Municipality, one of the regions into which Crimea is divided. During much of its history, the city was a significant settlement known as Caffa () or Kaffa (Old Crimean Tatar/Ottoman Turkish: ; Crimean Tatar/). According to the 2014 census, its population was 69,145.
Panticapaeum
Pantikapaion ( , from Scythian 'fish-path'; ) was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of Crimea, which the Greeks called Taurica. The city lay on the western side of the Cimmerian Bosporus, and was founded by Milesians in the late 7th or early 6th century BC, on a hill later named Mount Mithridat. Its ruins now lie in the modern city of Kerch.
Kimmerikon
thumb|350x350px|Kimmerikon (Psoa) and other Ancient Greek colonies along the north coast of the Black Sea.
Kimmerikón (Greek , ) was an ancient Greek city in Crimea, on the southern shore of the Kerch Peninsula, at the western slope of Opuk mountain, roughly 40 kilometres southwest of modern Kerch. It was situated with its acropolis on the hills on the west side of the mountain. The town was founded by the Milesian colonists in the 5th century BC and flourished at the beginning of the Christian era. Its name may refer to an earlier Cimmerian settlement on the site.

Myrmekion
Myrmēkion or Myrmecium (, , ) was an ancient Greek colony in Crimea. The settlement was founded in the eastern part of the modern city of Kerch, 4 km NE of ancient Panticapaeum on the bank of Kerch Bay near the Karantinny Cape. The settlement was founded by Milesians in the first half of the 6th century BC.