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Tagsbosporus
14 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian / Bosporan Greek
Entire Greek city Akra 3–4 m under Kerch Strait off Naberezhne — harbour mole 120 m at –3 m and street grid 200×150 m at –3.5 m.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian / Bosporan Greek
Entire Greek city Akra 3–4 m under Kerch Strait off Naberezhne — harbour mole 120 m at –3 m and street grid 200×150 m at –3.5 m.
🇷🇺 Russia · Buried city
Archaic to Medieval (540 BCE – 1000 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan / Sarmatian / Khazar
Bosporus capital 540 BCE — eastern harbour lobe 400x200 m silted +2 m 500 m inland with 80 m mole vs western −7 m.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Roman (c.580 BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian Greek
Taman 'Gardens' Aphrodite polis — eastern necropolis and lower quarter 1–3 m submerged 3 km east of Phanagoria.
🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Roman (c.560 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Crimean Atlantis — intact classical street grid and double walls at 3–7 m deep off Cape Takyl, the only wholly underwater Bosporan town.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval (543 BCE – 10th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom
Easternmost third of Phanagoria submerged 1–5 m in Taman Bay — harbour mole, shipwreck and street grid 300 m offshore.
🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Roman (550 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Bosporan fish-sauce factory town — 30 salt-cisterns with anchovy bones, lower industrial strip now 1–2 m underwater off Kerch spit.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic Greek to Medieval (543 BCE – 10th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan / Khazar / Byzantine / Russian
Greatest Greek city of Taman — one third now submerged under Taman Bay containing harbour and lower town.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval (c.580 BCE – 1482 CE) · Mytilenean Greek / Khazar / Kievan Rus
Mytilenean Bosporan polis on Taman hill — lower harbour 1–4 m submerged along Tuzla spit, 2500-year sequence to Tmutarakan Rus.
🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval (570 BCE – 13th c. CE; port antique) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan / Pontic / Byzantine
Bosporan wine port with Dionysus sanctuary — chalk-cliff city whose harbour now 2–4 m under Kerch Strait.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (c.600 BCE – 375 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom
Bosporan capital on Mount Mithridat — lower harbour and north-slope warehouses now 0.5–3 m submerged in Kerch Bay.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Roman (c.550 BCE – 240 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Kerch Strait narrows emporium — lower harbour 1.5–4 m submerged on Taman spit opposite Kerch, controls Bosporus passage.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Byzantine (c.580 BCE – 300 CE) · Greek / Bosporan
Bosporan grain port at Eltegen cape — lower harbour terrace 1–4 m submerged 200 m offshore in Kerch Strait.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval (c.580 BCE – 10th c.) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan / Sarmatian
590 BCE neighbour to Phanagoria whose harbour quarter is now under Taman Bay.
