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- proper noun historical An important Ancient Greek colony and port in Taurica (Tauric Chersonese), founded by
Milesians in the late 7th–early 6th century BC on the site of present-dayKerch .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Chrysippus thrusts his wise man headforwards for the sake of gain, as far as Panticapaeum and the desert of the Scythians.
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Pericles took an expedition into the Euxine and established good relations with the rulers of Panticapaeum, who exported grain to Athens.
443 2001
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His son Machares was left in Panticapaeum to be satrap.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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Mithradátes was obliged to flee across the Black Sea to Panticapaeum (Kertch).
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell
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The old king was in Panticapaeum when he learned this, and sent ahead some soldiers against his son, saying that he himself would soon follow them.
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