Ukraine's Ancient Greek City
The Ancients
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The History of Olbia
Orbea is a city-state in the Black Sea, on the edge of the Greek world. It was set up as a trading post but then became a city that survives through to 1st century common era. There's no surviving work by Orbean writers; they were all killed off or exiled before their time. But we do have literature about this ancient city-state and how it thrived for 700 years after its founding.
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