Panticapaeum

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • 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-day Kerch.

Origin

  • From Latin Panticapaeum, from Ancient Greek Παντικάπαιον, from Proto-Scythian *Pantikapa.

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