Qualla: Feodosiya https://qualla.com/feodosiya en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Feodosiya https://qualla.com/feodosiya Feodosiya: Introduction https://qualla.com/feodosiya/ Drive in from the north and Feodosiya makes a terrible first impression: factories, industrial sprawl, the look of a town that has seen better days. Push past all that, though, and the old town opens like a secret. Broad streets run beneath overgrown trees, wealthy merchant houses stand in elegant decay, stray cats sun themselves on crumbling steps, and everywhere the Black Sea glints at the end of the lane. The architecture recalls Odesa on a smaller, quieter scale. For a modest resort on the Crimean coast, one that fills with sun-seeking visitors every summer and empties again each autumn, Feodosiya carries an astonishing weight of history, twenty-six centuries of it, layered so thickly that nearly every ruler who ever coveted the Black Sea seems to have passed through here and left something behind.

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/1/0/feodosiya-wk/ub10-feodosiya-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Feodosiya: Twenty-Six Centuries in One Town https://qualla.com/feodosiya/ The town began as Theodosia, founded by Greek colonists from Miletus in the sixth century BC, then destroyed by the Huns in the fourth century AD and left a minor village for the better part of nine hundred years. Khazars, Byzantines, Kipchaks, and Mongols each held sway in turn;...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/1/0/feodosiya-wk/ub10-feodosiya-twenty-six-centuries-in-one-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Feodosiya: Palaces, Churches, and Cats https://qualla.com/feodosiya/ The pleasures of Feodosiya are the wandering kind. An old Genoese fortress still guards the shore, its towers a reminder of the merchant republic that made this city rich. Stamboli's palace, the extravagant home of a wealthy tobacco merchant, speaks to a later age of fortune, and...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/1/0/feodosiya-wk/ub10-feodosiya-palaces-churches-and-cats.mp3 0:06 3 full Feodosiya: The Ghost at the Gates https://qualla.com/feodosiya/ No chapter of Feodosiya's history is darker or more consequential than what happened at Caffa in 1347. During a long Mongol siege, plague broke out in the besieging army, and according to a much-repeated account, the attackers catapulted infected corpses over the city walls, an e...

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