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Yevpatoriya City Information
Evpatoria or Yevpatoriya is a city located on the Crimean Peninsula north-west of Simferopol. With a population of 108,000 inhabitants, it is one of the major Ukrainian Black Sea ports, a rail hub, and a resort town.
Evpatoria has an ancient history. The original settlement was built by Greek settlers around 500 BC. Along with the rest of the Crimea, it was a dominion the King of Pontos, Mithridates VI (Eupator Dionysius), from whom the city’s modern name derives. From the 7th century until the 18th century the city was ruled by Asian / Turkic rulers including Khazars, Cumans, Mongols, the Crimean Khanate, and the Ottoman Empire. During this period the city was known as Gusliev (beautiful settlement). Yevpatoriya became a Slavic city in 1783 when the Russian Empire finally conquered Crimea.
Most popular for its sandy beaches and shallow water, which is ideal for sunbathers and swimmers, the city is alive with tourists from May until October. Most visitors come for the sun and the sand, some come to cleanse and rehabilitate ailing bodies in one of many sanatoria (health resorts), while a few come to see the rich history that goes back more than 25 centuries.
Crimea
Simferopol City Information
Simferopol is the political, administrative and cultural center of Crimea and is located in the middle of the Crimean peninsula. “Simferopol” is a Greek word and means “a town-collector”. Actually, all Crimean’s roads collect in Simferopol. So whatever you would like to go in Crimea you should almost for sure visit Simferopol first.
Simferopol was founded on April 28, 1784 after Crimea was joined to Russia by Katherine II. There was a small Tatar town named Ak-Mechet. Till now downtown of the city consists of two parts: Tatar and European, and you will easy notify the differences if you take a short tour around the city.
Population of the capital of Crimea is about 400,000 people. It is quite a small and quite a big city at the same time. You can easily walk to any part of it in 40-45 minutes.
Simferopol has a pretty large public transportation system, a big railway station, and an airport. You can get any point of Crimea from Simferopol. There is the trolleybus track (the longest in the World at more than 90 km) which goes from the airport to Yalta.
Kerch City Information
Kerch is the city located in Crimea. It is very old city – people celebrated 2500′th birthday of it in 2000.
Kerch peninsula having always been a crossroads of marine and overland trade routs has preserved the remains of different cultures and civilizations in monuments of Antiquity, Middle Ages and new time. World archeological and architectural treasury includes the excavation of antique settlements and funeral crypts of Bosporus State capital – Pantikapei. The masterpieces of Bosporus funeral architecture are the Imperial barrow; church of John Predtechi – one of’ the best known monuments of the . Byzantian architecture of IX-X centuries; fortress Yenikale – monuments of Turkish Empire. All these objects tell you about great skill of the ancient architects, mode of life and culture, history of many peoples, inhabited Kerch ‘ peninsula, which is named as archeological reservation.
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