CHAPTER XI.

ON THE ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF THE CRIMEA.

The Cimmerii—The Tauri—Connexion of Greece with the Black Sea—Digression on the Crypts of the Crimea—B.C. 600: the Scythians—The Greek colonies, B.C. 650—Milesian emigration—Dorian emigration—Trade of these early times—Mithridates, reigned B.C. 120-63—A.D. 62: The Alans—A.D. 100-200: The Goths—A.D. 376: The Huns—Second attack of the Huns—Justinian reigned, A.D. 527-565—A.D. 679: The Khazars—A.D. 900-1000: The Petchenegues—About 1204: The Comans—1226: The Tatars—The Genoese—1473: Kaffa taken by the Turks—The Black Sea then shut up to European nations—Mixture of races in present inhabitants of Crimea 166