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A fascinating site

Sudak is a beautiful city located in the southern part of Crimea (Krym), seventy kilometers away from Simferopol. With over 14,000 inhabitants, the most characteristic aspect of this coastal town is its fort, visible from all points of the city and from the sea, as it is located on top of the mountain and makes the panorama of the city really beautiful. It is believed that the city was founded in 212 AD, in the sixth century, when the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I ordered the construction of a fortress to be built in the town, which was an important place of trade until the twelfth century.

This became a very important place for trade along the Silk Road. In the early thirteenth century the Venetians came to Sudak, renaming it Soldaia, though ultimately ceding control to the Genoese in 1365. In 1783, the town finally passed to the Russian Empire, along with the rest of Crimea. It would appear that there was a mass migration as a result of the instability that followed during that period. in 1778, the Russian ruler Potemkin ordered the evacuation of the Christian population that had been living in the Crimea. The town quickly became a small town, and according to the census of 1805, there were only thirty-three people still living in Sudak. Today it is a popular tourist destination, especially in the summer.
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