Military history of the Bosporus kingdom

About 480 BC. e. Greek colonies were united into a single state, based on the banks of the Kerch Strait, then called the Bosporus of the Cimmerian. Thus began the thousand -year history of the Bosporus kingdom, part of which became complex, sometimes hostile relations with barbaric tribes, the struggle with other ancient cities for the right to rule in Crimea and even rivalry with the Roman Empire. Hence the last great king of the Hellenistic East, Mithridates VI, Evpator prepared a trip to Rome, but this ended with the fact that the Romans appeared on Bospor themselves and turned him into the outpost of the empire in the Northern Black Sea region. The authors consider the military history of the Bosporus kingdom against a wide cultural background, attracting both numerous ancient sources and the achievements of modern sciences - archeology, linguistics, ethnology.
Yuri Vinogradov and Vladimir Goroncharovsky - Doctors of Historical Sciences, employees of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, specialists in the field of ancient archeology