Feodosia

Feodosia, additionally referred to as Theodosia, is a port and hotel, a town of local significance in Crimea at the Black Sea coast. Feodosia serves because the place of job of Feodosia Municipality, one of the areas into which Crimea is divided. During a whole lot of its records the city become called Caffa or Kaffa. The town turned into based as Theodosia by Greek colonists from Miletos in the 6^th century BC. Noted for its rich agricultural lands, on which its trade depended, it become destroyed with the aid of the Huns within the 4^th century AD. Theodosia remained a minor village for plenty of the following 900 years. It changed into at times a part of the sphere of influence of the Khazars and of the Byzantine Empire.

Like the rest of Crimea, this place fell underneath the domination of the Kipchaks and became conquered by the Mongols in the 1230s. In the past due 13^th century, traders from the Republic of Genoa arrived and purchased the town from the ruling Golden Horde. They installed a flourishing trading settlement referred to as Kaffa, which really monopolized exchange within the Black Sea place and served as a chief port and place of work for the Genoese settlements across the Sea. It got here to house considered one of Europe's biggest slave markets.