Anapa

Anapa is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The place around Anapa changed into settled in antiquity. It became originally a chief seaport for the Natkhuay tribe of the Adyghe humans after which the capital of Sindica. The colony of Gorgippia become built at the web page of Sinda within the 6th century BCE by using Pontic Greeks, who named it after a king of the Cimmerian Bosporus. In the second and third centuries BCE, Gorgippia flourished as part of the Bosporan Kingdom, as did its guild of shipowners, which controlled maritime exchange inside the eastern part of the Black Sea.

A exceptional statue of Neokles turned into unearthed with the aid of Russian archaeologists and is now on exhibit on the Russian Museum. Gorgippia became inhabited till the 3rd century CE, when it became overrun by way of nomadic tribes. These tribes, of Circassian or Adyghe starting place, gave Anapa its present day call. Later the Black Sea littoral became overrun by means of successive waves of Asiatic nomads, consisting of the Sarmatians, Ostrogoths, Huns, Avars, Gokturks, Khazars, Circassians, and Tatars.

The agreement become renamed Mapa by means of the Genoese at the flip of the 14th century. Genoese domination lasted until the arrival of an Ottoman fleet in 1475. The Turks later built a castle towards the Russian Cossacks. The fort changed into repeatedly attacked via the Russian Empire and became all but destroyed at some point of its closing siege in 1829.