Ukraine's Ancient Greek City
The Ancients
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The History of Orbea
Orbea reaches its zenith around the time where Athens is in the ascendancy. It survives Darius's invasion of skithia but we don't know what it does during that period. Herodotus gives us a detailed description of what Orbea looks like at that time, if I'm not mistaken. And then the Hellenistic city that we see, the time of Alexander and beyond, is when we see Orbea at his biggest. That's obviously when it's at its most wealthy. The Greek world now ends. Go and read Neuroy who do these things the Scythian way.
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