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| | Eupatoria (Kerkinitida) |
 | | Eupatoria (Russian: Евпатория, Ukrainian: Євпаторія, Tatar: Kezlev), also known as Yevpatoria or Evpatoria, as pronounced in Russian and Ukrainian, is a town in the Crimea. |
 | | Along with the rest of the Crimea, Eupatoria was part of the dominions of Mithridates VI, King of Pontus, from whose nickname, "Eupator", the city's modern name derives. |
 | | From roughly the 7th through the 10th centuriesAD Eupatoria was a Khazar settlement; it's name in Turkic is "Gusliev" or "Beautiful Settlement" (in modern Turkish, "Kezlev" or "Gözleve"; Russified as "Koslov"). |
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