place ſet down in the Ruſſian map under the name of Konezek, as it lies on the ſea-coaft, about 35, of the Way from Panticapæum to Theodoſia.
From Cazeca to Theodoſia 280 ſtadia. Strabo computes the diſtance between Panticapæum and Theodoſia to be 530 ſtadia. This is nearly true, if it be reckoned in a ſtraight line; but if it be meaſured round the capes and head-lands, it will agree nearly with that given by Arrian. The account of the diſtance in Pliny is too corrupt to be depended upon. The author of the fragment of the Periplus of the Euxine ſea ſays, that Theodoſia was then called by the Alani, Ardauda, from the ſeven deities worſhipped there, as that word ſignifies in the Alanic language.
Theodoſia was an ancient Greek city, a colony of the Mileſians, and, with many cities[1] on this coaſt, was remarkable for monuments of literature. Arrian remarks, that it was deſerted, and probably in ruins, in his time. It ſtill ſubſiſts under the name of Kaffa; but whether the modern town ſtands exactly on the ſame ſite with the ancient, is doubtful. It had a good port, and was ſituated in a fertile country. It recovered itſelf during the middle ages under the Genoeſe government, who took it A. D. 1255, and made it an emporium for eaſtern commodities. It was taken from them by the Turks, A. D. 1474, and is again in decay, although it ſtill ſubſbſiſts as a conſiderable town.
From Theodoſia to a port of the Tauro-Scythaz 200 itadia. We are told by Pliny, that there were ſeveral of theſe on this
- ↑ Ammianus ſays of the Cherroneſus, that it was "coloniarum plena Græcarum." Lib. xxii. cap. 8.
