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Opuk (mountain)
Opuk (, ) is a mountain 183 meters high, located on Opuk cape, on the southern tip of the Kerch Peninsula, in Crimea, the highest point in the area. The Opuk massif was declared the Opuk Nature Reserve in 1998. The slopes of Opuk mountain are a combination of stepped ledges, steep precipices, chasms and stone placers. Geology Opuk mountain is an isolated synclinal fold composed of Meotian limestones underlain by Sarmatian clays. The fold is strongly dissected by faults (seismogenic ditches), and several small natural caves, such as the Opukskaya-Yubileinaya discovered in 1996, are found in it, partially filled with clastic material. Archeology The earliest ancient Greek settlements on the mountain date back to the turn of the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Fragments of early Chios amphorae and painted black-lacquer table pottery have been found. In the V century BC at the foot of the mountain was a Greek settlement — Kimmerikon, which was part of the Bosporan Kingdom. Rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimea
Crimea ( ) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukraine. To the east, the Crimean Bridge, constructed in 2018, spans the Strait of Kerch, linking the peninsula with Krasnodar Krai in Russia. The Arabat Spit, located to the northeast, is a narrow strip of land that separates the Syvash lagoons from the Sea of Azov. Across the Black Sea to the west lies Romania and to the south is Turkey. The population is 2.4 million, and the largest city is Sevastopol. The region, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, has been under Russian occupation of Crimea, Russian occupation since 2014. Called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period, Crimea has historically been at the boundary between the Classical antiquity, classical world and the Pontic–Caspian steppe, steppe. Greeks in pre-Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
