cities called Olbia, see Olbia (disambiguation) Pontic Olbia (Ancient Greek: Ὀλβία Ποντική; Ukrainian: Ольвія, romanized: Olviia) or simply Olbia is an archaeological...

north-western Pontic shores and in western Crimea, including Niconium, Tyras, Pontic Olbia, and Kerkinitis, and the close relations between Pontic Olbia and the...

Sarmatian power in the Pontic Steppes was also directed against the Greek cities on its shores, with the city of Pontic Olbia being forced to pay repeated...

refer to: Province of Olbia-Tempio, a former province in Sardinia, Italy Pontic Olbia, ancient city and archaeological site in Ukraine An ancient settlement...

eponymous river god, but also seems to have been an alternative name for Pontic Olbia, a town situated near the mouth of the same river on the Black Sea coast...

The Pontic Greeks (Pontic: Ρωμαίοι, Ρωμιοί; Turkish: Pontus Rumları or Karadeniz Rumları; Greek: Πόντιοι, romanized: Póndii or Ελληνοπόντιοι, romanized:...

importance at Pontic Olbia from a very early period despite Hēraklēs not featuring prominently in the religious traditions of the homeland of Olbia's founders...

the Scythian kingdom on the lower Danube stretched from Tyras or even Pontic Olbia in the north to Odessus in the south. The Scythians were an ancient Iranian...

Skilurus ruled over the Tauri and controlled the ancient trade emporium of Pontic Olbia, where he minted coins. In order to gain advantage against Chersonesos...

in the Greek colony of Pontic Olbia were commonly placed in the burials of Scythian women during the earlier phases of the Pontic Scythian kingdom. The...

start. The colonies of Miletus in this region of the Black Sea were Pontic Olbia and Panticapaeum (modern Kerch.) Later in the 6th century B.C. the Milesians...

from the Middle Danube to the Black Sea littoral (between Apollonia and Pontic Olbia) and from the Northern Carpathians to the Balkan Mountains. In 53 BC...

Melanchlaeni migrated to the south, where the settled around the Greek city of Pontic Olbia, where the Protogenes inscription, written sometime between 220 and 200...

snake-god identified by the Greeks of Pontic Olbia with Achilles Pontarkhēs (lit. 'Achilles, Lord of the Pontic Sea'). Sailors had to pass through this...

Human representation of the Dnieper river (known as Borysthenes) on an Ancient Greek coin of Pontic Olbia, 4th–3rd century BC...

the Pontic port of Sebastopolis Aqmescit Simferopol 1784 city of common good Orlyk Olviopol (Pervomaisk) 1782 after Ancient Greek colony Olbia (Pontic Olbia)...

Odessos coastal Bulgaria Varna Olbia Sardinia Civita, Terranova Pausania Olbia Ukrainian Black Sea coast abandoned Pontic Olbia, Olvia Olous near Elounda,...

The Pontic eagle is the primary ethnic symbol of the Pontic Greeks, also called Pontian Greeks. The bird has spread wings and looks to the side. The eagle...

priesthood of the Scythians. An amphora found in the western temenos at Pontic Olbia where was located the temple of Apollo Iētros (lit. 'Apollo the Healer')...

antas. Based on documentation of "Sarmatian" tribes inhabiting the north Pontic region during the early centuries of the Common Era, presumed Iranic loanwords...

as over a significant section of the north-west of the Pontic region, including Pontic Olbia, where he issued his coins. Skilurus continued Scythian...

snake-god identified by the Greeks of Pontic Olbia with Achilles Pontarkhēs (lit. 'Achilles, Lord of the Pontic Sea'), in which role he was associated...

censuses. Most Greeks in Ukraine belong to the larger Greek diaspora known as Pontic Greeks. But there are also a small recent group of Greek expats and immigrants...

the ancient trade route which started from the ancient Greek colony of Pontic Olbia on the northern shore of the Black Sea and continued to the north-east...

show that near the area was the old Milesian (ancient Greek) colony of Pontic Olbia; it is supposed that the same Greek expeditions settled Alektor.[clarification...

cult of Achilles, the other two were the Racecourse of Achilles and the Pontic Olbia. The Greeks during the Ottoman Empire renamed it Fidonisi (Greek: Φιδονήσι...

the ancient trade route which started from the ancient Greek colony of Pontic Olbia on the northern shore of the Black Sea and continued to the north-east...

(principally grain from Sarmatia and metals from the Caucasus region). Pontic Olbia and the Roman client-states of the Bosporan kingdom and Colchis hosted...

eponymous ancestors. The Olbia-centricity of this variant of the myth is exhibited by the mention of Hylaea, which was close to Pontic Olbia, but also by how...

displayed many Hellenic traits. For example, he built a large house in Pontic Olbia and married a Greek woman, both unheard of practices because the Scythians...