Kertch

Seaport in the Crimea; the ancient Panticapæum, colonized ab. 550 B.C. from Miletus; capital of Bosporos: taken IMG:content-0939.jpg:[graphic] Tomb of the Scythian Kings near Kertch. by Turks 1475, by Ru ians 1771; destroyed by the French and English 1855. Pop. ab. 29,000.