Ionian Greeks from Heraclea Pontica establish the…

585 BCE to 574 BCE

Ionian Greeks from Heraclea Pontica establish the city of Chersonesus Taurica, probably as a trading factory, (located three miles west of modern Sevastopol, Ukraine) on the Heracleotic Chersonese (or Chersonesos Micra [Small Chersonese]) in the southwestern part of Crimea, known in the sixth century BCE as Taurica.

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