Settlement Kerkinitida

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Cercinitis founded at the end of the VI century immigrants from Ionia. The city existed as a separate policy. Bicycle trade with other Greek cities (Chersonesus, Olbia, Heraclea), the Scythians. City residents engaged in trade, fishing, crafts.

At the end of the IV. BC. BC Cercinitis becomes dependent on Chersonese. Construct better appreciation of the city. In the third century. BC. e city is thriving. In Chersonesus, coins have its own coins.

In the second century. BC. BC Scythians capture the city, which established their kingdom in the steppe Crimea - Scythia Minor. Residents of the city are buried in the Chersonese. The Greeks, unable to cope alone with the Scythians turn to the Bosporus King Mithridates VI Eupator. The troops of Mithridates captured the ruined remains of the Scythians Cercinitis, but residents have not returned there.

Maybe in a while there Cercinitis Scythian settlement. In the IV century AD, the Huns invaded the Crimea and completely destroyed remains of Hellenic civilization.