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	Tmutarakan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tmutarakan (Russian: Тмутаракань) is an ancient city that controlled the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov.
		It was situated on the Taman peninsula, in the present-day Krasnodar Krai of Russia.
		Mstislav Vladimirovich was the prince of Tmutarakan from 988 to 1036.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tmutarakan (317 words)

	Tmutarakan' by Sergei V. Rjabchikov - English
		The artifacts from Tmutarakan' are exhibited in the Kuban museums.
		T'mutorokan'skyy bl''van (an idol of Tmutarakan') was a symbol of this Polovtsian territory.
		The fragment of an amphora from the ancient settlement Tmutarakan' is housed in the Taman' Archaeological Museum.
	public.kubsu.ru /~usr02898/tmtrkn.htm (11278 words)

	Oleg I of Chernigov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oleg Sviatoslavich of Chernigov, sometimes also styled as of Tmutarakan, was a Rurikid prince whose equivocal adventures ignited political unrest in Kievan Rus at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries.
		One of the sons of Sviatoslav II of Kiev, Oleg was named after his grand uncle.
		He was defeated and escaped to Tmutarakan, where the Khazars had him imprisoned and sent in chains to Constantinople.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oleg_Sviatoslavich (372 words)

	Kerch - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 1318, the Tatars, who had come into possession in the previous century, ceded the town to the Genoese, who soon raised it into new importance as a commercial centre.
		They usually called the place Cerchio, a corruption of the Russian name K'rtchev (whence Kerch), which appears in the 11th century inscription of Tmutarakan (a Russian principality at the north foot of the Caucasus).
		Under the Turks, whose rule dates from the end of the 15th century, Kerch was a military port; and as such it plays a part in the Russo-Turkish wars.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kerch (1020 words)

	The Crimea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Justinian was warned of the plan by his wife, Busir's sister, and fled Tmutarakan, but not before killing Papatzys and his Tmutarakanian counterpart Balgitzin.
		Note that Matrega was not under the direct rule of the Genoese state, but was granted to lords of the Ghisolfi, a Genoese family trading with Mongolia.
		Tmutarakan was annexed to Kiev when the Khazarian town of Tamatarkha was seized and a fortress built to secure the district.
	www.hostkingdom.net /crimea.html (1518 words)

	Justice For North Caucasus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The territory of the Tmutarakan principality included the Eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula, and among the inhabitants were Slavs, Adyge, Greeks, and Alans.
		Kasogs were included in the retinue of the Tmutarakan prince Mstislav, and took part in the 11th -century campaigns against Yaroslav the Wise.
		The Kipchaks (Polovtsy) took Tmutarakan from Rus, and the Slavic population of the Northwest Caucasus merged with the Adyge.
	groups.msn.com /JusticeForNorthCaucasus/shapsuga.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=4079&LastModified=4675566686197585341 (2518 words)

	Kerch - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Its ruler, Georgius Tzul, was deposed by a Byzantine-Rus expedition in 1016.
		From the 10th century the city was a Slavic settlement named Korchev, which belonged to the Tmutarakan principality.
		Korchev was a center of trade between Rus, Crimea, Caucasus, and the Orient.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kerch (1236 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		E.N.E. of Novo-rossiysk on the railway to Rostov-on-Don, and in 450 3' N. and 38° 50' E. It is badly built, on a swampy site exposed to the inundations of the river; and its houses, with few exceptions, are slight structures of wood and plaster.
		in 1794 on the site of an old town called Tmutarakan, as a small fort and Cossack settlement, its population grew from 9620 in,86o to 65,697 in 1897.
		It has various technical schools, an experimental fruit-farm, a military hospital, and a natural history museum.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=22515&locale=en (151 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Azov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The site of ancient Tanais, now occupied by Nedvigovka village, has been excavated since the mid-19th century.
		In the 10th century, the area passed under control of the Slavic princedom of Tmutarakan.
		The Kypchaks, seizing the area in 1067, renamed it azak (i.e., lowlands), from which appelation the modern name is derived.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Azov (8799 words)

	Chernihiv - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		From the early eleventh century it was the seat of powerful Grand Principality of Chernigov, whose rulers at times vied for power with Kievan Grand Princes, and often overthrew them and took the primary seat in Kiev for themselves.
		The grand principality was the largest in Kievan Rus and included not only the Severian towns but even such remote regions as Murom, Ryazan and Tmutarakan.
		The golden age of Chernigov, when the city population peaked at 25,000, lasted until 1239 when the city was sacked by the hordes of Batu Khan, which started a long period of relative obscurity.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Chernihiv (928 words)

	Cimmerian Bosporus - Wikipedia Light! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This in ancient times seems to have formed a group of islands intersected by arms of the Kuban River (Hypanis) and various sounds now silted up.
		The whole district was dotted with Greek cities: on the west side, Panticapaeum (Kerch), the chief of all, often itself called Bosporus, Chersonesos, and Nymphaeum; on the east Phanagoria, Cepi, Germonassa (Tmutarakan), Portus Sindicus, Gorpippia.
		These Greek colonies were mostly settled by Milesians, Panticapaeum in the 7th or early in the 6th century BC, but Phanagoria (c.
	www.godseye.com /wiki/index.php/Cimmerian_Bosporus (1287 words)

	SLAVONIC ANTIQUITY by Sergei V. Rjabchikov - English
		On the Inscription on the Tmutarakan' Amphora in the Krasnodar Historical-Archaeological Museum
		Saint Nikon and Prince Vseslav: A Plot on the Fragment of a Tmutarakan' Amphora
		The paper was read by the author at the international conference Russian Philosophy and Orthodoxy in the Context of World Culture, the Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia, on 22 October 2004, and its theses were published at the web site of the Kuban branch of the Russian Philosophical Society, Krasnodar, Russia, on 12 October 2004.
	slavonicweb.chat.ru /slavonic.htm (2955 words)

	Khazars
		Cherson, Sudak, Kerch and other Crimean cities possessed Jewish communities, as did Gorgippa, and Samkarsh / Tmutarakan was said to have had a Jewish majority as early as the 670s.
		The original Jewish settlers were joined by waves of immigration fleeing persecution in the Byzantine Empire, Sassanid Persia (particularly during the Mazdak revolts), and later within the Islamic world.
		During the Khazar-Arab war of the early 700s, some Khazars evacuated to the Ural foothills, and some settlements may have remained.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/k/kh/khazars.html (6837 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - 1066 Rus
		Make sure she is also set as married to Vsevolod in 1066_scenario_relations.inc, and set as mother to Vladimir.
		Basically, Rostislav was the previous count of Tmutarakan who was poisoned in early 1066.
		The correct ruler of Tmutarakan after Rostislav is Gleb, son of Prince Sviatoslav of Chernigov (again, see my first post).
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=143842&page=1 (3751 words)

	Russian History, YAROSLAV THE WISE: chronology, Bright Persons, Great Events, Historical link and books
		During his reign Rus achieved the highest political development, significance and power, although in the beginning Yaroslav faced numerous problems.
		Particularly, a lot of troubles were made by his brother Mstislav, at that time the prince of Tmutarakan, who in 1023 took the Severyan Rus, and next year tried to take Kiev.
		Both brothers had even clashed in a battle, which Mstislav won.
	www.cozy-corner.com /history_eng/persons_yaroslav_wise.htm (380 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		When many brethren had been gathered up into the monastery, the monk Nikon desired to go into solitude and keep silence.
		He withdrew onto the Tmutarakan' peninsula (on the eastern banks of the Kerchensk straits) and settled in an unpopulated spot.
		When news about his life spread throughout the region, there gathered about him those wishing to lead a monastic life.
	cs-people.bu.edu /butta1/divenbog/MARCH/23-MARCH.DOC (2326 words)

	Global Intellect: Russian Translation
		This language originates from the East-Slavonic group of dialects that started to consolidate into separate languages in the 7th-9th centuries.
		Russian incorporated two dialects: South-Russian and North-Russian that were spoken by the tribes living around Tmutarakan' (near the Azov Sea) and Novgorod-Pskov.
		Later the South-Russians moved to the north and northeast, founding the new cities - centers of feudal power, like Vladimir, Ryazan and especially Moscow.
	www.global-intellect.net /russian.php (385 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		During this period the first set of Russian code of laws were introduced called Yaroslav’s Justice.
		Later on yet another brother would challenge Yaroslav and inflict heavy damage upon Kyiv in 1024, this brothers name was Mstivislav of Tmutarakan.
		To avoid further conflict Yaroslav split the Kyivan Rus’ While Yaroslavs military exploits were monumental in the unification of the Rus’, Yaroslav had many other ways of bringing the country together.
	www.personal.psu.edu /jrt204/kyivan_Rus.html (794 words)

	A Catalog of Ancient and Medieval Coins
		And now they have been published nay illustrated so that you can enjoy useful and exceptional information able to bring some new light on the history of the ancient world.
		Here are presented materials of: urban coinage of such ancient Greek cities as Panticapeaum, Theodosia, Nymphaeum, Phanagoria, Sindi, Gorgippia, Dioscurias, Chersonesus, Cercinitis; royal coinage of the Bosporan Kingdom; Barbarian imitations (Scythian – Sarmatian and Goths’ of the Taman’ Peninsula); medieval coins from Byzantine Cherson, Tmutarakan’ Princedom, Genoese-Tatar’s Kaffa.
		The coins are classified and well illustrated, which makes the catalog a real compendium for any really interested scholar!
	www.fridmanbooks.netfirms.com /forms/cen006a.htm (171 words)

	THE CHECHEN CHRONICLES ?98
		The strengthening of Russian influence in the North Caucasus was connected with the emergence of the old Russian Tmutarakan principality.
		As lord of Tmutarakan, the Russian prince was at the same time head of the Christian Adyghes, since the Adyghe diocese Centre was located in his jurisdiction (the Adyghes professed Christianity before the 16th century).
		Turkish penetration of the Caucasus began in the 16
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/01/chechen98/261.htm (2147 words)

	Varia
		He links to several interesting pages relating to the area south of the forest-steppe boundary of Rus: 1.
		Sergei V. Rjabchikov, "Tmutarakan', an Outlying Land"; 2.
		Proto-Bulgarians north and west of the Black Sea" (extended summary of 1987 book published in Bulgarian); 3.
	faculty.washington.edu /dwaugh/rus/rusvaria.html (438 words)

	LITUANUS. Vol. 37, No. 1 - Spring 1991
		He even became a deputy by simply appointing himself as one.
		And he became president by the votes of those similarly appointed and "elected" in Tmutarakan.
		If he were to offer himself today as a candidate to the people of Russia, like Yelcin is planning to offer himself, I wonder if he would get even fifteen percent of the vote.
	www.lituanus.org /1991_1/91_1_06.htm (989 words)

	Polacak / Polotsk
		Thus Usiaslau has worn it to the present day.
		He would race from Kiev to Tmutarakan' (a town and principality on the peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, East of Crimea - A.S.) before the first cockcrow and, in the shape of a wolf, would cross the path of the great Chors.
		For him the bells of the cathedral of the Holy Wisdom at Polacak would toll for matins in the early morning, and he heard them by the time he reached Kiev."
	www.belarusguide.com /cities/polacak.html (2057 words)

	OCA - Lives of all saints commemorated on this day
		When the number of brethren in the monastery had increased, St Nikon desired to go into seclusion and live as a hesychast.
		He went to the Tmutarakan peninsula (on the eastern banks of the Kerchensk straits) and settled in an unpopulated spot.
		When news of his holy life and spiritual gifts spread throughout the region, many gathered about him, wishing to follow his example.
	www.oca.org /FSlivesAllSaintsPrint.asp?SID=4&M=9&D=28 (16398 words)

	Bulychev's "How To Become An SF Writer"
		And would you please fill the collection box as we pass by?"
		The Academician Rybakov excavated Tmutarakan', found a synagogue there, and declared it an Orthodox Cathedral.
		I well understand how awkward it can be for some professional who has developed a passionate interest in a different field.
	www.fossickerbooks.com /fantastom.html (5087 words)

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