Bosporan Kingdom
Also known as Cimmerian Bosphorus, Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, Βασιλεία τοῦ Κιμμερικοῦ Βοσπόρου (Ancient Greek)
Greco-Scythian state near Sea of Azov (c.438 BC–c.527 AD)
Key facts
- Status
- Independent kingdom (c. 480 – c. 107 BC) Kingdom of Pontus (107 – 63 BC) Client kingdom of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire (63 BC – AD 63; AD 68 – AD 527) Part of the Roman province of Moesia Inferior (AD 63 – AD 68)
- Capital
- Panticapaeum
- Common languages
- Greek Scythian
- Religion
- Local variant of Hellenistic polytheism
- Government
- Monarchy
- 438 433 bc
- Spartokos I (first, confirmed king)
- Ad 314 341
- Rhescuporis VI (probably last leader)
- Historical era
- Antiquity
- Established
- c. 438 BC
- Disestablished
- c. AD 527
- Currency
- Pontic stater Roman coinage
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Today part of Russia
Ukraine (disputed)