Bosporan Kingdom - Longest Surviving Ancient Greek State 

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"Do you want to know about the Bosporan Kingdom?" "Oh, yes please!"

Greeks existed in Crimea up until the 20th century. The surrounding area had a large greek presence with cities almost greek in character due to the policies of Catherine II. Odessa, Tangarog, Mariupol had thousands of Greeks living there.

Please do the Greek colonies of the Western Mediterranean such as Massalia really interesting stuff :)

The relationship with the Romans didn't stop there as Justinian II spent his exile in Crimea (a story worthy of an episode in itself!)

I was just reading about the giant kurgans in the Crimea! Fascinating

Russians: Crimea is russian! Ukrainians: Crimea is ukraine! Turks: Crimea is turkish! Bulgarians: Crimea is bulgarian, it belonged to Old Great Bulgaria! Tatars: Crimea is ours! Greeks:

All kinds of peoples: "Crimea belongs to us!" Greeks just shaking their heads.

-How much history you want to leave behind you? Greeks:Yes!

Greek history is truly one of best

The Greeks are an absolutely fascinating people. They truly are one of the eternal leaders of humanity. The things they managed to achieve at the zenith(s) of their civilization(s) are quite remarkable, and there have been so many iterations of prominent Hellenic civilization that I am left wondering whether we will bear witness to another rise some time in the future. Probably not in our lifetime. Regardless, what a history.

Ancient Greek cities: So how far should we colonize? Ancient Greeks: Yes

The empire of Trapezounta survived even 50 years after the fall of the Byzantine Empire and there are strill Greeks living in Crimea today who never left.

2:40 as a Greek i always sympathize when the narrator attempts to pronounce Greek words . Cheers

The Bosporian kingdom was the first and the last hellenistic state, that is most interesting fact about it)

The music used is actually ancient Greek. It is a song found on a grave tombstone I think, it says to live happily and have fun because time demands the end (of you)

The music displayed is the Seikilos Epitaph, the oldest Greek music ever to be discovered.Seikilos lived around 200 BC in Tralleis, Asia Minor, modern day Turkey.He wrote this sing on the tomb of his wife... "As you live, joy//don't you be sorry at all//living is for a little time// the end is demanded by time..."

Many Bosporans died to bring us this information.

You touch aspects of the ancient greek world that others don't even know.... I am amazed

Excellent video! The Bosporan Kindgdom was one of the main reasons that Athens endured the long siege by the Spartans, during the Peloponnesian War, because the Bosporan's grain substain the city. For this reason the Atheneans granted the Athenean citizenship to the Spartacids of the Bosporan Kingdom, and they considered them, as benefactors of the Athenian city-state. Fan-fuct: The Byzantine Principality of Theodorou at Crimaia, ruled by the Gavras's family, was the last Byzantine state that fell to the Ottomans in 1475 AD, ending the Greek presence at Crimaia after 20 centuries...

"Asander married his daughter Dynamis." So they were playing CK2 classical edition?

You should make a video on the March of the 10 000 greeks and Xenophon. Such an amazing story.

I like learning about this region it basically was a melting pot of eastern and western cultures

Would you consider about starting a new series of videos covering the whole Peloponnesian war? I am convinced that your unique care for historical accuracy by taking always into consideration all the primary and secondary sources, will give ground to some outstanding and memorable videos about one of the most crucial events of Antiquity the Peloponnesian War, an event which in ancient times was of equal importance to that of Caesar's Civil War ot the Diadochi Wars.

15:29 holy shit, Asander got 93 years old?!? Damn

In antiquity No one: Greeks: *I COLONIZE AND HELLENIZE*

The history of this great kingdom is almost like symphony. A slow, melodic and comforting beging, a cressendo with its main theme in the middle, then a somber music overlaped with main theme fading out in the end, sort a farewell to the Classical/Roman era and signaling the Great Migration. Bravo K&G

Satyros is an interesting choice of a name.

I love this channel so much, every update is like a small heart attack.

I almost never commented on your vids, because when I comment it's usually to criticize or complain like a donkey. But damn my man, your channel is pure absolute f*ing gold. Keep on the good work, you're filling me with inspiration. Sending you all my good vibes to you and your team! Cheers from Switzerland !

I've been waiting for this since Alexander arrived at the Persian gates

There’s always been something fascinating about the Bosporan Kingdom - they were one of my favourite factions in Rome 2 without a doubt...

Thanks for showcasing this rarely-discussed Greek region. I don’t know why all other videos about ancient Hellas have to be only about Athens, and, if we’re lucky, Sparta. I would love more about Pelopennesian history, my family is from there (Kalamata). How about a video on the Morea? I think that’s when my ancestors acquired our Italian name.

For Long time I was thinking that the longest surviving Hellenistic Kingdom was the Hellenistic Kingdom of India of King Menander. Thank you KandG for this video with knowledge I didn't know so far , will look into it further :) Greetings from Greece and Cyprus :)

Man I love this channel covering topics That I didn’t know that exsist

Bosporan Kingdom in 375 AD: "All right, things may look dire, but we have lived through worse. We only have to survive for 187 more years and we've cracked a milennium, so if no horde of nomadic raiders suddenly comes out of nowhere..." The Huns: "LEEEROOOOOOY..."

13:44 that circular "portrait" of that Scythian king actually happens to be a bas-relief of the Sassanid Persian king Khosrow I.

Thank you for this K&G. I descent from greek imigrants who were forced to flee that region during the bolshevic revolution.

P.s still waiting for March of ten thousand s of Xenofon with ALL the details of course , continue strongly.

One of my fave areas of Greek culture. Thanks so much for this K & G ! You've provided me many names with which to continue my research. :)

🇬🇷The name given in Western languages ​​to the most strictly peninsular part of the current Balkan Peninsula derives from the denomination of Graeci, under which the Romans (like the Italics in general) knew its inhabitants in historical times. The origin of this ethnic group is not entirely sure, some connecting it, on the basis of a passage of Aristotle that reflects ancient etymologies, with the supposed Γραικοί inhabitants in the surroundings of Dodona in Epirus, others with the inhabitants of Γραῖα, name of two towns , in Boeotia and Euboea. Entirely distinct is the name of Hellas (‛Ελλάς, ethnic" Ελληνες) with which the ancient Greeks called their homeland, and which, at first specific to a small region of Thessaly, then extended in degrees, some of which can be found ( Hellas and Argos, in the Odyssey), to the whole peninsula inhabited in ancient times by the Greeks. The two names Hellas and Greece thus coexisted throughout ancient times, one in indigenous usage, the other in Latin, except the official name of Greece when it became a Roman province, which was Achaea. Then the second was maintained geographically and culturally throughout the Western Middle Ages, and is still in force today in the languages ​​that drew it from Latin (Grèce, Griechenland, Greece). darkened and decayed with the extinction of ancient civilization, replaced in places by Romania, which reflects the Roman imperial continuity in the Byzantine denominations; the name of Ρωμαῖοι in Byzantium itself, Rūm in the Muslim Near East, united the Byzantines all , and the inhabitants of the land that once belonged to the Hellenes. The ancient glorious name rose again with the rise to freedom and state unity of the neo-Greek nation, which as a symbol of alleged traditional and ethnic continuity took the official name of ‛Ελλάς and the ethnic name of" Ελληνες; renewing, with a geographically expanded content after the Balkan wars and ethnically very complex and modified for centuries, the ancient indigenous denominations.

Technically the Greek state in the Bosporus was survived by the empire of Trebizond and the principality of Theodoro which wasn’t conquered till 1475. Awesome video tho

No one would've guessed that such a kingdom survived at all and for this long. This was a nice video. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

I am obsessed with Bospnoros history! Gimme more! I’m so glad that Devin is speaking for this already amazing channel. You guys are awesome! Thank you so much for this extra history. It means a lot to me.

Shortly after the Soviet collapse, I became part of an American research team invited to conduct archaeological investigations at Chersonesus. We worked there for three summers. Our focus was a part of the city traditionally believed to be the Jewish sector but I had the opportunity to map approximately 30% of the city. This city's Jewish population pre-dated the Empire but it expanded after the two Romano-Jewish Wars fought between 67 to 132 CE. Outside of the city, close to Balaclava I got to visit an extant legionary camp. The Gothic capital is inland between Yalta and Sevastopol. The valleys of the Inkerman Hills exhibit hundreds of Greek farmsteads from the 5th century BCE to the 3rd century CE. This city survived until its conquest by the Mongols in the mid-14th CE. In the late 9th century it served as a meeting location of Byzantium and the Kingdom of Kviv (Kiev). It's an altogether fascinating part of the larger Mediterranean world and for me a wonderful experience.

Hello! When I studied history in school, in our textbooks on the Roman Empire there was always indicated the Kingdom of the Bosphorus as a client-kingdom on maps of the Empire. I always wondered how this relationship came to be and in this video, we will explore this. Hope you all enjoyed it!

Also, part of the Bosporan Kingdom like the cities of Theodosia and Chersonese became part of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire up until its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1475 AD.

Can we hear more about the Iranic tribes such as the Sarmatians, Scythians, Alans, Sogdians, Saka etc?

It's so exiting to see here a video related to the history of my homeland (I'm from Feodosia that was Theodosia during that time). It would be great if you made a vid about Crimea in the middle ages as well.

Fascinating , love and support from Turkey . I want more Hellenistic Era videos .

Hands down the best history channel on YT.

You crushed it with the visuals! Great job!

Ahh cant wait for you to do more on various Hellenistic states, The Seleucid and Ptolemaic kingdoms, Pontus, Attalid Pergamum and so on. Great content

Excellent video of a fascinating, but little known Kingdom of antiquity. I have assembled the armor, weapons and clothing of a Greco-Scythian mercenary warrior of the Bosporan Kingdom, c.400BC.

Didn’t the Byzantine (east Roman Empire) hold lands here later on?

Great video K&G as always !!! continue the series about the colonies of the ancient Greeks

Awesome video, I love this channel.

This was a great video. I really did enjoy the complete overview of the city/kingdom's history. Really hope we can have some more videos like this, as its a good format for rise and fall style story, which there are plenty of in the ancient world.

Damn. The video, brilliant voice actor and insanely good animations really made that last shot feel like a true end of an era. Thank you K&G!

Awesome video! Interesting topic, stunning visuals and informative coverage. I thank you.

Wanted this video for a long time. Thank you.

Loved this episode. It would be really cool if you guys looked at other lesser know Hellenic kingdoms or Greek colonies.

I didn't learn that in school when I was a boy as greek. Thank you !!

Incredible thank you!!!

Kings and general you provide me all the knowledge that I know.Keep up the good work.

". . . .from Alexandria Eschate in Afghanistan . . ." I love your videos, however, Alexandria Eschate or Alexandria Eskhata (Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἐσχάτη), literally "Alexandria the Farthest", was a city founded by Alexander the Great, at the south-western end of the Fergana Valley in August 329 BC. It was the most northeasternly outpost of the Greek Empire in Central Asia, directly before the gates to China. It is situated not in Afghanistan but in modern Tajikistan. Please check out the geographical facts as I show some of your otherwise excellent videos to my students. We appreciate your work. Thank you, Sir!

Motto of Greeks : Yes we can.

Your channel is awesome! Thank you for what you are doing.

Very informative and enjoyable!! Keep it up!!

I always wondered about the history of that single Lone random territory

I'm amazed Conan let them settle in his people's lands lol

A great video! Really amazing! Keep up the good work!

So excited for another Kings and Generals vid and Greece! Perfect thing to watch!!

Everyone talks about the great Macedonian empire but not about the long Bosporan Kingdom

That was awesome, love ancient greek. I would love to see you carry on about ancient mesopotamia, carry on from where you left off with hammurabi

Thank you for making this excellent video!

Fascinating and well made. Congrats

Hey Man, can you also talk about the Diadochi Thracian Kingdom (led by Lysimachus) one of alexander’s successors and bodyguards? I would’ve been really interested.

So the Massalians invaded Cimmeria, huh... Conan is not amused...

I been waiting on an episode about this for so long lol. Thanks!!

Very informative video, thank you so much

So you’re telling me that Kirk Douglass is not the only Spartacus???

Very interesting 👌 I'm hearing plenty of unfamiliar names Excellent episode!

Thank you!! I've been waiting for this video since you made the one about the Etruscan. See if you can do one about the minoan civilization.

Thanks for making this video. I wasn't able to find any information about Bosphorus before this.

Can you do a video about the Dacian Kingdom, please?

A want to play Teodora in eu4 now

Simply amazing content once again

Amazing video! Well done!

When is the next episode of Caesar's civil war???

By Athena I love this channel!

Incredible work!

Thank you I have been waiting for someone to make a video on this

Well now it’s time to play as the Bosphorus Kingdom in Rome 2.

14:38. "In favor of Iranian, scythian and sarmatian customs" 17:11 "Iranian or Scythian cultures" Scythians and Sarmatians were Iranic people, closely related to Sogdians and Parthians. The writer creates a huge confusion.

Great video guys, 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 you should do Cyrene next 👍🏼

One more historically correct video!!! Keep on the great job!!!

The Longest Living Greek Strait is in Russia, named after a strait controlled By Turkey, was ended by Huns from Central Asia. Hmm Nice

Byzantines later on reconquered and controled some of that area, and they were also greeks.

Very good work! Keep going!