[struwwelpeter]

The Greeks got around, even into the Crimea. On the Black Sea not far from Yalta are a bunch of Greek ruins called Khersones. In fact, Yalta was at one time a Greek colony called Halos. Faros, where Gorby's dacha in the Crimea is located, was also a Greek colony.

The ruins of the Khersones are depicted on the back of the 1 Grivnya note.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, I think everyone will appreciate that sidebar. The Hellenistic Greek/Macedonian/Ptolemaic heyday sprawled all over eastern Europe, and Central Asia, from India and parts of what is now China, to the considerably thinner (but better known) Greek presence in the western Mediterranean. The Roman poet Ovid wound up exiled to a border fringe area of the empire that was on the north of shore of the Black Sea.