A long-lived Greco-Scythian kingdom controlling the Cimmerian Bosporus (Kerch Strait) between Crimea and the Taman Peninsula, ruled first by the Spartocid dynasty and later as a Roman client state, before dissolution by the Hunnic invasion.
Overrun and dissolved by the Huns in 370 CE, ending over 800 years of continuous Bosporan statehood.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Bosporan Kingdom — the shape you scrub through changes in 438 BC · 162 BC · 50.
The classic study of the Bosporan Kingdom and the Greco-Scythian world of the northern Black Sea; foundational scholarship on the Spartocid dynasty and Bosporan culture.
Strabo (Book 7 and 11) describes the Cimmerian Bosporus, Panticapaeum, and the Greco-Scythian kingdom of the Kerch Strait — a near-contemporary primary account.