CHAPTER XLI.

POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL REVOLUTIONS OF THE CRIMEA.

Extent and Character of Surface--Milesian and Heraclean Colonies

--Kingdom of the Bosphorus--Export and Import Trade in the Times

of the Greek Republics--Mithridates--The Kingdom of the Bosphorus

under the Romans--The Alans and Goths--Situation of the Republic

of Kherson--The Huns; Destruction of the Kingdom of the Bosphorus

--The Khersonites put themselves under the Protection of the

Byzantine Empire--Dominion of the Khazars--The Petchenegues and

Romans--The Kingdom of Little Tatary--Rise and Fall of the

Genoese Colonies--The Crimea under the Tatars--Its Conquest by

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