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Rostov Oblast, Russia
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Azov, formerly known as Azoff is a town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, situated on the Don River just 16 kilometers from the Sea of Azov, which derives its name from the town. The mouth of the Don River has continually been an essential commercial center. At the begin of the third century BCE, the Greeks from the Bosporan Kingdom based a colony right here, which they called Tanais. Several centuries later, within the last 1/3 of 1st century BCE, the settlement changed into burned down via king Polemon I of Pontus. The creation of Greek colonists restored its prosperity, however the Goths almost annihilated it within the 3rd century. The web site of historic Tanais, now occupied by the khutor of Nedvigovka, has been excavated for the reason that mid-19th century.

In the 5th century, the location turned into populated with the aid of Karadach's Akatziroi who got here below the rule of thumb of Dengizich the Hun before Byzantium gave the land to the Hunugurs in the 460s to grow to be called Patria Onoguria below his brother Ernakh the Hun. The Kutrigur Hun inhabitants of Patria Onoguria became known as the Utigur Bulgars whilst it have become part of the Western Turkic Kaghanate beneath Sandilch. Then inside the seventh century Khan Kubrat ruler of the Unogundurs hooked up Old Great Bolgary there earlier than his heir Batbayan surrendered it to the Khazars.

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