Bilhorod Dnistrovskyi

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, formerly referred to as Akkerman, is a metropolis and port located at the right bank of the Dniester Liman in Odessa Oblast of southwestern Ukraine, within the historic region of Bessarabia. Administratively, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi is integrated as a town of oblast importance. It also serves as the place of work of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, one of 26 districts of Odessa Oblast, even though it isn't always a part of the district. It is a place of a large freight seaport.

In the 6^th century BC, Milesian colonists founded a agreement named Tyras at the future area of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, which later got here beneath Roman and Byzantine rule. In Late Antiquity, the Byzantines built a citadel and named it Asprokastron, however it handed out in their manipulate within the 7^th – 10^th centuries, however appears to have been re-mounted via the mid-11th century. The Voskresensk Chronicle lists Bilhorod "on the mouth of the Dniester, above the sea" a few of the towns managed by means of Kievan Rus.