Eupatoria or Yevpatoria (, , ) is a city in
Crimea,
Ukraine. The name is also often spelled as Yevpatoriya (according to Russian and Ukrainian 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.
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