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Gelendzhik

Krasnodar Krai, Russia
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About Gelendzhik

Gelendzhik is a motel town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. In antiquity, the Gelendzhik Bay become the web site of a minor Greek outpost, referred to as Torikos within the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax. It is unknown to Hellenistic assets, but reappears in Roman ones beneath the name of Pagrae in sixty four BC. The colony changed into worn out through the invading Huns, which were succeeded by using the Zygii quickly after.

During the Middle Ages, the bay was of some mercantile significance to the Genoese traders who noted the beach village as Maurolaca. Before Russia secured the coast by the Treaty of Adrianople, a brisk slave exchange had been carried on between the mountaineers and the Ottoman Empire. Since the Circassian beauties had been typically traded for gold and different commodities earlier than being taken to Turkish seraglios, the marketplace region have become referred to as "Gelendzhik", literally, "little bride" in Turkish Language.

In 1831, one of the first forts of the Black Sea Coastal Line changed into set up at Gelendzhik. At the outbreak of the Crimean War the fort had to be blown up and deserted, but it turned into resettled via the Cossacks in 1864, at the realization of the Russian-Circassian War, and have become called the stanitsa of Gelendzhiksaya. Town repute changed into granted to Gelendzhik in 1915.

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