Qualla: Kimmerikon https://qualla.com/kimmerikon 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: Kimmerikon https://qualla.com/kimmerikon Kimmerikon: Introduction https://qualla.com/kimmerikon/ The walls tell you what the people here feared. At Kimmerikon, the city ramparts were built two and a half meters thick, and the walls of the acropolis a full three and a half, stone piled deep against an enemy the townsfolk knew could come at any time. This ancient Greek city clung to the western slope of Opuk mountain on the southern shore of the Kerch Peninsula, about forty kilometers southwest of modern Kerch, its citadel perched on the hills where it could watch the steppe. Founded by colonists from Miletus in the fifth century BC, Kimmerikon was not built for beauty. It was built to hold a line.

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/1/b/kimmerikon-wp/ub1b-kimmerikon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kimmerikon: The Shield of a Kingdom https://qualla.com/kimmerikon/ Kimmerikon guarded something precious. It stood as an important stronghold defending the heartland of the Bosporan Kingdom, its center and its capital, from the Scythians who ranged the plains beyond. That is why its walls were so thick, why its acropolis crowned a defensible hei...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/1/b/kimmerikon-wp/ub1b-kimmerikon-the-shield-of-a-kingdom.mp3 0:06 2 full Kimmerikon: Goths, Pirates, and Fire https://qualla.com/kimmerikon/ No wall holds forever. In the middle of the third century AD, the Goths swept down and sacked Kimmerikon, breaking the long peace the fortress had kept. The city did not die at once; some urban life clung on for a few more decades. But near the end of that century the end came vi...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/1/b/kimmerikon-wp/ub1b-kimmerikon-goths-pirates-and-fire.mp3 0:06 3 full Kimmerikon: Reading the Stones https://qualla.com/kimmerikon/ What remains today is a hillside of ruin, and the patient work of those who study it. Soviet archaeologists excavated Kimmerikon in 1927 and again in the late 1940s and early 1950s, unearthing the traces of the city's long life. Much of what they found now rests in the Kerch Muse...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/1/b/kimmerikon-wp/ub1b-kimmerikon-reading-the-stones.mp3 0:06 4 full Kimmerikon: A Name That Outlived Its City https://qualla.com/kimmerikon/ Kimmerikon is easy to confuse, and the confusion is instructive. It should not be mistaken for the later Tatar town of Kirim, founded roughly a thousand years after Kimmerikon perished and lying some eighty-eight kilometers due west. The two share the accident of similar-sounding...

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