Mangup is a plateau fortress and cave town in the Crimean Mountains, once the capital of the Principality of Theodoro, a small Byzantine-Gothic state of the 14th and 15th centuries. The plateau was settled in antiquity, and a Byzantine fortress was built there in the 6th century. In the late Middle Ages the rulers of Theodoro, who were Orthodox Christians of Greek and Gothic background, fought the Genoese colonies on the coast and later the Ottomans. The Ottoman army under Gedik Ahmed Pasha took Mangup after a long siege in 1475, and the town gradually declined. The ruins include walls, a basilica, a palace and many caves, and a Karaite community also lived there.
Before and after
- from 285 CE to 1453Byzantine Empire
- from 285 CE to 476 CEWestern Roman Empire
- 293 CEConstruction of Diocletian's Palace
- 293 CEDiocletian establishes the Tetrarchy
- 3rd centuryOrigins of Mangup
- 303 CEConstruction of Etchmiadzin Cathedral
- 23 February 303 CEThe Great Persecution of Christians begins
- from 304 CE to 439 CESixteen Kingdoms
- 312 CEOrigins of Basilica of Maxentius
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The era
This moment belongs to the Ancient civilizations (3,200 BCE to 500 CE), writing, cities and empires.