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Feodosia

Feodosia is situated on the historical Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea cost of Ukraine. Feodosia is a small city with a rich history going back to the first century A.D. Today's Feodosia is part of the Crimean Autonomous Republic, the greatest administrative, economic, scientific, cultural and historical centre of South-Eastern Crimea, an important Black Sea harbour, important as a transport junction and famous as a health resort. Feodosiia is also widely known for its mineral waters and medicinal mud.

Feodisiia is also famous for its history - it is one of the oldest towns in Europe. In the 6th c. BC on the site of the settlement of Ardabra (Aravda) merchants-seafarers founded the settlement of Feodosiia.

Ancient Feodosiia fell in the 4th c. Be during the invasion of nomads. In subsequent centuries life only dragged out here. In the 13th - 14th c. a new city emerged on the ruins of the old one and got the name of Kafa; for two centuries it was under the dominion of the Genoese. In the Middle Ages Kafa was the major commercial port of the Northern Black Sea maritime regions. It also became notorious as a large centre of slave trade in the Crimea.

In 1475 Kafa was seized by the Turks. The town wad renamed Keffe and became a centre of the Crimean Province of the Turkish Sultan. After the annexation of the Crimea by Russia the town got its original name of Feodosiia.

The town has numerous monuments of history and culture, especially of medieval architecture, as well as monuments dedicated to its liberators from the Nazi invaders, heroes of the Feodosiia landing operation.

Feodosia is associated with the names of I. K. Aivazovsky, M. A. Voloshin, A. S. Grin, and other well-known cultural figures.

 

 

Sightseeing

Novyi Svit National Preserve. Founded in 1974. Covers an area of 470 hectares.
The preserve is a mountainous maritime massif on the Southeastern coast of the peninsula. It is one of the Crimea's most picturesque monuments of nature. In its territory rare species of plants - Crimean pines and relict Sudak pines - can be found, as well as a natural park of treelike juniper.