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For the lake Kerkinitis, see Kerkini
Eupatoria or
Yevpatoria ( ) is a city in
Crimea,
Ukraine. The name is also often spelled as
Yevpatoriya (according to Ukrainian and Russian pronunciation).
The first recorded settlement in the area, called
Kerkinitis, was built by
Greek colonists around
500 BC. Along with the rest of Crimea, Kerkinitis was part of the dominions of
Mithridates VI, King of
Pontus, from whose nickname,
Eupator, the city's modern name derives.
From roughly the
7th through the
10th centuries AD Eupatoria was a
Khazar settlement; its name in
Khazar language was probably
Güzliev (literally "beautiful house"). It was later subject to the
Cumans (
Kipchaks), the
Mongols and the
Crimean Khanate. During this period the city was called
Kezlev by
Crimean Tatars and
Gözleve by
Ottomans. Russian medieval name
Kozlov is a
Russification of the Crimean Tatar name.
For a short period in
1478 -
1485 the city was administrated by the
Ottoman Empire. In
1783 with the whole Crimea Kezlev was captured by the
Russian Empire. Its name was officially changed to Eupatoria in
1784. The city was briefly occupied in
1854 by
British,
French and
Turkish troops during the
Crimean War, when it was the site of the
Battle of Eupatoria.
Adam Mickiewicz visited the town in 1825 and wrote one of his
Crimean Sonnets here; it was later translated into Russian by
Mikhail Lermontov.
Today Eupatoria is a major
Ukrainian Black Sea port, a rail hub, and resort town. The main industries include
fishing,
food processing, wine making,
limestone quarrying, weaving, and the manufacture of building materials, machinery, furniture manufacturing and tourism. The
National Space Agency of Ukraine has ground control and tracking facilities here.
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