Greeks and Romans referred to the current Kerch Strait as the Cimmerian Bosporus, the strait that connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch and Taman peninsulas in the vicinity of Crimea. Today, this area is a war zone between Russia and Ukraine, but in antiquity, it was a region that, […]
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New England, the Medieval Colony Founded in Crimea by Anglo-Saxons Fleeing the Norman Conquest
In the article dedicated to the Varangian Guard, we explained that, following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, this unit came to be known as Englinbarrangoi (Anglo-Varangians) and English became their usual language because it began to be filled with Anglo-Saxons (English and Scots) who left the islands to settle in Constantinople. In 1098, […]