Tanais
Sign in to savethumb|Relief from Tanais Tanais ( Tánaïs; ) was an ancient Greek city in the Don river delta, called the Maeotian marshes in classical antiquity. It was a bishopric as Tana and remains a Latin Catholic titular see as Tanais.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Tanais
- Ancient site.image
- Танаис, археологический музей-заповедник-6.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- The archaeological park of Tanais. May 2017
- Ancient site.map_type
- Russia Rostov Oblast#European Russia
- Ancient site.location
- Nedvigovka, Rostov Oblast, Russia
- Ancient site.region
- Maeotian marshes
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.builder
- Settlers from Miletus
- Ancient site.built
- Late 3rd century BC
- Ancient site.abandoned
- Second half of the 5th century AD
- Ancient site.epochs
- Hellenistic to Late Antiquity
- Ancient site.cultures
- Greek, Sarmatian
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruined
- Ancient site.ownership
- Public
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Archaeology
- Genetics
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|Relief from Tanais Tanais ( Tánaïs; ) was an ancient Greek city in the Don river delta, called the Maeotian marshes in classical antiquity. It was a bishopric as Tana and remains a Latin Catholic titular see as Tanais.
==Location== The delta reaches into the northeasternmost part of the Sea of Azov, which the Ancient Greeks called Lake Maeotis. The site of ancient Tanais is about 30 km west of modern Rostov-on-Don. The central city site lies on a plateau with a difference up to 20 m in elevation in the south. It is bordered by a natural valley to the east, and an artificial ditch to the west.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tanais” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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