Tmutarakan
Sign in to saveTmutarakan (, ; ) was a medieval principality of Kievan Rus' and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, between the late 10th and 11th centuries. Its site was the ancient Greek colony of Hermonassa () founded in the mid 6th century BCE, by Mytilene (Lesbos), situated on the Taman peninsula, in present-day Krasnodar Krai, Russia, roughly opposite Kerch. The Khazar fortress of Tamantarkhan (from which the Byzantine name for the city, Tamatarcha, is derived) was built on the site in the 7th century, and became known as Tmutarakan wh
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Tmutarakan
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Hermonassa
- Ancient site.image
- Hermonassa 2.JPG
- Ancient site.caption
- Excavation at the site, September 2008
- Ancient site.map_type
- Russia Krasnodar Krai#European Russia
- Ancient site.map_caption
- Location of the site within Russia
- Ancient site.location
- Krasnodar Krai, Russia
- Ancient site.region
- Taman Peninsula
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.built
- 6th century BCE
- Ancient site.abandoned
- After 14th century CE
- Ancient site.condition
- In ruins
- Ancient site.image_size
- 240
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Tmutarakan (, ; ) was a medieval principality of Kievan Rus' and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, between the late 10th and 11th centuries. Its site was the ancient Greek colony of Hermonassa () founded in the mid 6th century BCE, by Mytilene (Lesbos), situated on the Taman peninsula, in present-day Krasnodar Krai, Russia, roughly opposite Kerch. The Khazar fortress of Tamantarkhan (from which the Byzantine name for the city, Tamatarcha, is derived) was built on the site in the 7th century, and became known as Tmutarakan when it came under the control of Kievan Rus'.
== History ==