A group of Ostrogoths who did not follow Theodoric into Italy moved to this region and founded its city of Mangup, which the Byzantines named Dory.
A group of Ostrogoths who did not follow Theodoric into Italy moved to this region and founded its city of Mangup, which the Byzantines named Dory. The Spartocid dynasty ruled the Kingdom of the Bosporus from this region's city of Panticapaeum. A native state in this region was established by Haci I Giray and ruled from Bakshisarai. Vladimir I was baptized after taking a city in this region, Chersonesus. A Mongol siege of Genoa's colony in this region, Caffa, may have introduced the Black Death to Europe. A war named for this region included the battles of Taganrog and Sinope. For 10 points, name this home to a population of Tatars, a Black Sea peninsula that includes Sevastopol and has been annexed by Russian autocrats Catherine the Great and Vladimir Putin.
A group of Ostrogoths who did not follow Theodoric into Italy moved to this region and founded its city of Mangup, which the Byzantines named Dory.
Crimean Peninsula