Pantikapaion. It should have faded into obscurity, just another backwater colony surrounded by barbarians. Instead it thrived, becoming the capital of a kingdom that was the supreme power on the Pontic steppe and a major economic power in the rest of the Greek world. And then for them to last into the mid 300s AD, centuries after the rest of the Greeks had fallen? They were truly one of a kind.
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This is really neat.