What is Bosporan Kingdom?
[[Image:Panticapaeum.Prytaneion-1.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Ruins in [[Panticapaeum]], modern [[Kerch]], the capital of the Bosporan Kingdom.]] The '''Bosporan Kingdom''' (often called Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus) was an ancient empire, covering the [[Crimea]] and a lot of the north coast of the [[Black Sea]]. It is regarded as the first '[[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]]' country to speak [[Greek language|Greek]]. ==Overview== The Bosporan Kingdom was the longest surviving known [[Roman Empire|Roman]] [[client state|client kingdom]] (allied state). It was a [[Roman province|Roman Province]] between 63 and 68, under Roman Emperor [[Nero]]. In the 1st century and 2nd century AD was a period of a new 'golden age' of the Bosporan Kingdom when it was famous for its jewellery. In the end of the 2nd century the King [[Sauromates II]] inflicted a critical defeat to the [[Scythians]] (a [[nomadic]] tribe) and included all the territories of the Crimea in the structure of his state. The Bosporan Kingdom became rich from selling [[wheat]], [[fish]] and [[slaves]] to rest of [[Europe]]. This means that there are a lot of amazing and very rich finds from the Kingdom, especially found in burial barrows (known as [[kurgans]]). Today, there are lots of architectural and sculptural remains from the Bosporan Kingdoms and many finds can be seen in the [[Hermitage Museum]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]], [[Russia]]. These include gold work and vases imported from [[Ancient Athens]] and the rest of [[Ancient Greece]]. It was finally destroyed by the [[Goths]] (barbarian tribes) at the end of the 4th century AD [[Category:Places of Ancient Rome]] [[Category:Former monarchies of Europe]]