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Feodosia (Russian: Феодосия, Feodosiya; Ukrainian: Феодо́сія, Теодо́сія, Feodosiia, Teodosiia[1]), also called in English Theodosia (from Greek: Θεοδοσία), is a port and resort, a town of regional significance in the Crimea on the coast of the Black Sea. Feodosia serves as the administrative center of Feodosia Municipality, one of the regions into which the Crimea is divided. During much of its history, the city was known as Caffa (Ligurian: Cafà; Crimean Tatar and Turkish: Kefe) or Kaffa. According to the most recent census, in 2014, its population was 69,145 (2014 Census).[2]

Феодосія (Feodosiia)
Russian: Феодосия
Ukrainian: Феодосія, Теодосія
Crimean Tatar: Kefe
Genoese fortress of Caffa
Феодосія (Feodosiia)
Location of Feodosia within Crimea
Coordinates: 45°2′56″N 35°22′45″E
CountryDisputed:
  •  Ukraine (part of)
  •  Russia (occupied by)
Republic Crimea
MunicipalityFeodosia Municipality
Elevation
50 m (160 ft)
Population
 (2015)
  Total69,145
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK)
Postal code
298100–298175
Area code+7-36562
Former namesKefe (until 1784), Caffa (until the 15th century)
ClimateCfa
Websitefeo.rk.gov.ru

History



Theodosia (Greek colony)


Theodosia and other Greek colonies along the north coast of the Black Sea from the 8th to the 3rd century BC
Theodosia and other Greek colonies along the north coast of the Black Sea from the 8th to the 3rd century BC

The city was founded as Theodosia (Θεοδοσία) by Greek colonists from Miletos in the 6th century BC. Noted for its rich agricultural lands, on which its trade depended, the city was destroyed by the Huns in the 4th century AD.

Theodosia remained a minor village for much of the next nine hundred years. It was at times part of the sphere of influence of the Khazars (excavations have revealed Khazar artifacts dating back to the 9th century) and of the Byzantine Empire.

Like the rest of Crimea, this place (village) fell under the domination of the Kipchaks and was conquered by the Mongols in the 1230s.

A settlement named Kaphâs (alternate romanized spelling Cafâs, Greek: Καφᾶς) existed surrounding Theodosia prior to the penetration of Genoese into the Black Sea. The archaeological evidence indicates that during the Middle Ages the population about Theodosia never decreased to zero; several medieval churches are found in the area dating from the times of Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages. However, the population had become completely agrarian. A small local Greek population must have existed in situ and in the neighboring settlements. Likely, from the 9th century there were Cumans and Goths living alongside the Greeks, and by 1270s, perhaps some Tatars and Armenians as well.[3]


Kaffa (Genoese colony)


Satellite image. The Genoese ports and later Turkish-controlled area were south of the mountains.
Satellite image. The Genoese ports and later Turkish-controlled area were south of the mountains.

In the late 13th century, traders from the Republic of Genoa arrived and purchased the city from the ruling Golden Horde.[4] They established a flourishing trading settlement called Kaffa, which virtually monopolized trade in the Black Sea region and served as a major port and administrative center for the Genoese settlements around the Sea. It came to house one of Europe's biggest slave markets. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia also adds that the city of Caffa was established during the times when the area was ruled by the Khan of the Golden Horde Mengu-Timur.[5]

Ibn Battuta visited the city, noting it was a "great city along the sea coast inhabited by Christians, most of them Genoese." He further stated, "We went down to its port, where we saw a wonderful harbor with about two hundred vessels in it, both ships of war and trading vessels, small and large, for it is one of the world's celebrated ports."[6]

In early 1318 Pope John XXII established a Latin Church diocese of Kaffa, as a suffragan of Genoa. The papal bull of appointment of the first bishop attributed to him a vast territory: "a villa de Varna in Bulgaria usque Sarey inclusive in longitudinem et a mari Pontico usque ad terram Ruthenorum in latitudinem" ("from the city of Varna in Bulgaria to Sarey inclusive in longitude, and from the Black Sea to the land of the Ruthenians in latitude"). The first bishop was Fra' Gerolamo, who had already been consecrated seven years before as a missionary bishop ad partes Tartarorum. The diocese ended as a residential bishopric with the capture of the city by the Ottomans in 1475.[7][8][9] Accordingly, Kaffa is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[10] The new diocese effectively broke up the diocese of Khanbaliq, which functioned as one diocese for all Mongol territory from the Balkans to China.[11]

It is believed that the devastating pandemic of the Black Death entered Europe for the first time via Kaffa in 1347, through the movements of the Golden Horde. After a protracted siege during which the Mongol army under Janibeg was reportedly withering from the disease, they catapulted the infected corpses over the city walls, infecting the inhabitants, in one of the first cases of biological warfare. Fleeing inhabitants may have carried the disease back to Italy, causing its spread across Europe. However, the plague appears to have spread in a stepwise fashion, taking over a year to reach Europe from Crimea. Also, there were a number of Crimean ports under Mongol control, so it is unlikely that Kaffa was the only source of plague-infested ships heading to Europe. Additionally, there were overland caravan routes from the East that would have been carrying the disease into Europe as well.[12][13]

Kaffa eventually recovered. The thriving, culturally diverse city and its thronged slave market have been described by the Spanish traveler Pedro Tafur, who was there in the 1430s.[14] In 1462 Caffa placed itself under the protection of King Casimir IV of Poland.[15] However, Poland did not offer significant help due to reinforcements sent being massacred in Bar fortress (modern day Ukraine) by Duke Czartoryski after a quarrel with locals.


Kefe (Ottoman)


Feodosia and territorial demarcations in the 15th century
Feodosia and territorial demarcations in the 15th century
17th-century woodcut showing Zaporozhian Cossacks in chaika boats, destroying the Turkish fleet and capturing Caffa
17th-century woodcut showing Zaporozhian Cossacks in "chaika" boats, destroying the Turkish fleet and capturing Caffa

Following the fall of Constantinople, Amasra, and lastly Trebizond, the position of Caffa had become untenable and attracted the attention of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. He was at no loss for a pretext to extinguish this last Genoese colony on the Black Sea. In 1473, the tudun (or governor) of the Crimean Khanate died and a fight developed over the appointment of his successor. The Genoese involved themselves in the dispute, and the Tatar notables who favored the losing candidate finally asked Mehmed to settle the dispute. Mehmed dispatched a fleet under the Ottoman commander Gedik Ahmet Pasha, which left Constantinople 19 May 1475. It anchored before the walls of the city on 1 June, started the bombardment the next day, and on 6 June the inhabitants capitulated. Over the next few days the Ottomans proceeded to extract the wealth of the inhabitants, and abduct 1,500 youths for service in the Sultan's palace.[unbalanced opinion?] On 8 July the final blow was struck when all inhabitants of Latin origin were ordered to relocate to Istanbul, where they founded a quarter (Kefeli Mahalle) which was named after the town they had been forced to leave.[16] Renamed Kefe, Caffa became one of the most important Turkish ports on the Black Sea.

In 1615 Zaporozhian Cossacks under the leadership of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny destroyed the Turkish fleet and captured Caffa. Having conquered the city, the Cossacks released the men, women and children who were slaves.


Feodosia (Russia)


View by C. G. H. Geissler, 1794
View by C. G. H. Geissler, 1794

Ottoman control ceased when the expanding Russian Empire took over Crimea between 1774 and 1783. It was renamed Feodosia (Russian Ѳеодосія; reformed spelling Феодосия), after the traditional Russian reading of its ancient Greek name. In 1900 Zibold constructed the first air well (dew condenser) on mount Tepe-Oba near Feodosia.

Feodosia, painting by Carlo Bossoli, 1856
Feodosia, painting by Carlo Bossoli, 1856

Soviet Union



WWII and Holocaust

The city was occupied by the forces of Nazi Germany during World War II, sustaining significant damage in the process. The Jewish population numbering 3,248 before the German occupation was murdered by SD-Einsatzgruppe D between November 16 and December 15, 1941.[17] A witness interviewed by the Soviet Extraordinary Commission in 1944 and quoted on the website of the French organization Yahad-In Unum described how the Jews were rounded-up in the city: "[A]ll the Jews were gathered. The Germans told them they would be displaced somewhere in Ukraine. On December 4, 1941, in the morning, all the Jews, including my father, my mother and my sister were taken to an anti-tank trench where they were executed by German shooters. 1,500-1,700 people were shot that day."[18] A monument commemorating the Holocaust victims is situated at the crossroads of Kerchensky and Symferopolsky highways. On Passover eve, April 7, 2012, unknown persons desecrated, for the sixth time, the monument, allegedly as an anti-Semitic act.[19]

All native Tatar inhabitants were arrested by Soviet forces as several thousand Tatars had fought side-by-side with the Nazis against Soviet forces and had participated in the Jewish genocide.[20] Following Stalin orders, all Tatars were sent to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and other Central Asian republics of the USSR.


Geography



Climate


The climate is warm and dry and could be described as humid subtropical, but not as Mediterranean, because the drying summer trend is not pronounced enough.

Climate data for Feodosia (1991–2020, extremes 1881–present)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 19.1
(66.4)
18.6
(65.5)
27.2
(81.0)
27.5
(81.5)
31.9
(89.4)
35.0
(95.0)
38.8
(101.8)
38.9
(102.0)
33.3
(91.9)
29.0
(84.2)
26.9
(80.4)
21.8
(71.2)
38.9
(102.0)
Average high °C (°F) 4.9
(40.8)
5.6
(42.1)
9.5
(49.1)
15.1
(59.2)
21.3
(70.3)
26.5
(79.7)
29.7
(85.5)
29.6
(85.3)
23.9
(75.0)
17.5
(63.5)
11.1
(52.0)
6.9
(44.4)
16.8
(62.2)
Daily mean °C (°F) 2.0
(35.6)
2.4
(36.3)
5.8
(42.4)
10.9
(51.6)
16.7
(62.1)
21.9
(71.4)
24.8
(76.6)
24.6
(76.3)
19.3
(66.7)
13.5
(56.3)
7.9
(46.2)
4.1
(39.4)
12.8
(55.0)
Average low °C (°F) −0.7
(30.7)
−0.4
(31.3)
2.8
(37.0)
7.4
(45.3)
12.8
(55.0)
17.6
(63.7)
20.4
(68.7)
20.2
(68.4)
15.3
(59.5)
10.1
(50.2)
5.0
(41.0)
1.5
(34.7)
9.3
(48.7)
Record low °C (°F) −25.0
(−13.0)
−25.1
(−13.2)
−14.0
(6.8)
−5.5
(22.1)
1.1
(34.0)
5.0
(41.0)
9.1
(48.4)
9.4
(48.9)
1.4
(34.5)
−11.2
(11.8)
−14.9
(5.2)
−18.6
(−1.5)
−25.1
(−13.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 43
(1.7)
36
(1.4)
38
(1.5)
32
(1.3)
41
(1.6)
43
(1.7)
33
(1.3)
41
(1.6)
43
(1.7)
41
(1.6)
41
(1.6)
46
(1.8)
478
(18.8)
Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) 1
(0.4)
2
(0.8)
1
(0.4)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
1
(0.4)
2
(0.8)
Average rainy days 12 8 10 11 9 7 7 6 9 8 12 12 111
Average snowy days 8 8 6 0.3 0.1 0 0 0 0 0.1 2 6 31
Average relative humidity (%) 81.3 79.2 77.1 73.4 70.5 68.3 63.5 64.3 70.0 76.5 80.8 82.0 73.9
Mean monthly sunshine hours 63 72 129 182 252 283 308 287 246 166 85 51 2,124
Source 1: Pogoda.ru.net,[21] World Meteorological Organization (humidity 1981–2010)[22]
Source 2: NOAA (sun, 1961−1990)[23]

Modern Feodosia


Panorama Feodosia seen from the mountain Tepe Oba.I
Feodosia embankment.
Feodosia embankment.
View from Tepe-Oba over Ordzhonikidze (Urban-type settlement under the town's jurisdiction)
View from Tepe-Oba over Ordzhonikidze (Urban-type settlement under the town's jurisdiction)

Modern Feodosia is a resort city with a population of about 69,000 people. It has beaches, mineral springs, and mud baths, sanatoria, and rest homes. Apart from tourism, its economy rests on agriculture and fisheries. Local industries include fishing, brewing and canning. As with much of the Crimea, most of its population is ethnically Russian; the Ukrainian language is infrequently used. In June 2006, Feodosia made the news with the 2006 anti-NATO protests.

While most beaches in the Crimea are made of pebbles, in the Feodosia area there is a unique Golden Beach (Zolotoy Plyazh) made of small seashells which stretches for some 15 km.

The city is sparsely populated during the winter months and most cafes and restaurants are closed. Business and tourism increase in mid-June and peak during July and August. As in the other resort towns of the Crimea, the tourists come mostly from the C.I.S. countries of the former Soviet Union.

Feodosia was the city where the seascape painter Ivan Aivazovsky lived and worked all his life, and where general Pyotr Kotlyarevsky and the writer Alexander Grin spent their declining years. Popular tourist locations include the Aivazovsky National Art Gallery and the Genoese fortress.


Economy and industry


Kasatka TsNII Gp NPO Uran (Gagra Pitsunda) - ship design R&D naval hardware
NPO Uran TsNII Gp "Kasatka" (Lab N°5 NII400) torpedoes (Gagra Pitsunda)

Twin towns—sister cities



People from Feodosia




The late-medieval city of Caffa is the location of a section of the novel Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett.

An early 14th-century bishop of Caffa appears in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose, making several sharp replies in a long, tempestuous debate within a group of monks and clerics; he is portrayed as aggressive and somewhat narrow-minded.


See also



Further reading



Notes


  1. Про впорядкування транслітерації українського алфавіту... | від 27.01.2010 № 55
  2. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2014). "Таблица 1.3. Численность населения Крымского федерального округа, городских округов, муниципальных районов, городских и сельских поселений" [Table 1.3. Population of Crimean Federal District, Its Urban Okrugs, Municipal Districts, Urban and Rural Settlements]. Федеральное статистическое наблюдение «Перепись населения в Крымском федеральном округе». ("Population Census in Crimean Federal District" Federal Statistical Examination) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. Khvalkov, Ievgen Alexandrovitch, The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region: Evolution and Transformation, European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization, Florence, vol.1, p. 83, September 2015,
  4. Khvalkov, I.E., The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region: Evolution and Transformation,European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization,Florence, 8 September 2015
  5. Mengu-Timur (Менгу-Тимур). Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
  6. Battutah, Ibn (2002). The Travels of Ibn Battutah. London: Picador. pp. 120–121. ISBN 9780330418799.
  7. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 432
  8. Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 1 Archived 2019-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 154–155; vol. 2 Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, pp. XVIII e 117; vol. 3 Archived 2019-03-21 at the Wayback Machine, p. 145; vol. 5, p. 134
  9. Gasparo Luigi Oderico, Lettere ligustiche ossia Osservazioni critiche sullo stato geografico della Liguria fino ai Tempi di Ottone il Grande, con le Memorie storiche di Caffa ed altri luoghi della Crimea posseduti un tempo da' Genovesi, Bassano 1792 (especially p. 166 ff.)
  10. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 855
  11. Khvalkov, Evgeny (2017). The colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea region : evolution and transformation. New York, NY. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-351-62306-3. OCLC 994262849.
  12. Wheelis, Mark (September 2002). "Biological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Kaffa". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 8 (9): 971–75. doi:10.3201/eid0809.010536. PMC 2732530. PMID 12194776.
  13. Frankopan, Peter. The Silk Roads. p. 183.
  14. Tafur, Andanças e viajes
  15. D. Kołodziejczyk, The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania. International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (15th–18th Century) A Study of Peace Treaties Followed by Annotated Documents, Leiden - Boston 2011, p. 62, ISSN 1380-6076; ISBN 978 90 04 19190 7
  16. Franz Babinger, Mehmed the Conqueror and his Time (Princeton: University Press, 1978), pp. 343ff.
  17. Martin Gilbert, The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust, 2002, pp.64, 83
  18. "Execution of Jews in Feodosiya". The Map of Holocaust by Bullets (interactive map). Yahad-In Unum. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  19. "ФЕОДОСИЯ. Осквернен памятник жертвам Холокоста". Всеукраинский Еврейский Конгресс. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
  20. "РУКОВОДСТВО ПАРТИЗАНСКИМ ДВИЖЕНИЕМ КРЫМА В 1941—1942 ГОДАХ И "ТАТАРСКИЙ ВОПРОС"". Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  21. "Weather and Climate-The Climate of Feodosia" (in Russian). Weather and Climate. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  22. "World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1981–2010". World Meteorological Organization. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  23. "Feodosija Climate Normals 1961–1990". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  24. Khvalkov, Evgeny (2017). The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region: Evolution and Transformation. Routledge Research in Medieval Studies. L, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. p. 444. ISBN 9781138081604. LCCN 2017028228.
  25. Khvalkov, Evgeny (2019). "Italia settentrionale e centrale nel progetto coloniale genovese sul Mar Nero: gente di Padania e Toscana a Caffa genovese nei secoli XIII – XV secondo i dati delle Massariae Caffae ad annum 1423 e 1461. In: Studi veneziani. 2016. Vol. 73. P. 237-240. Khvalkov E." SPb HSE (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  26. Khvalkov, Evgeny A. (2015). "Il progetto coloniale genovese sul Mar Nero, la dinamica della migrazione latina a Caffa e la gente catalanoaragonese, siciliana e sarda nel Medio Evo" (PDF). Archivio Storico Sardo (in Italian). Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Sardegna. www.deputazionestoriapatriasardegna.it. 50 (1): 265–279. ISSN 2037-5514.
  27. "KVK-Volltitel". kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  28. "Società Messinese di Storia Patria. Archivio Storico Messinese, Volume 96". www.societamessinesedistoriapatria.it. 2015. Retrieved 2019-10-21.



На других языках


[de] Feodossija

Feodossija (ukrainisch Феодосія, russisch Феодосия, beide .mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}​/⁠feoˈdosija⁠/​; krimtatarisch Kefe; altgriechisch Θεοδοσία .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}Theodosía, mittelgriechisch Κάφφας Káffas; im Mittelalter verbreitet Kaffa oder Caffa, später auch Coffa) ist eine Hafenstadt und ein touristisches Zentrum in der Autonomen Republik Krim (Ukraine) mit etwa 90.000 Einwohnern (mit eingemeindeten Vororten). Bewohnt wird Feodossija mehrheitlich von ethnischen Russen.
- [en] Feodosia

[ru] Феодосия

Феодо́сия (укр. Феодосія, Теодосія, крымскотат. Kefe, Кефе, греч. Θεοδοσία) — город в Крыму, расположенный в юго-восточной части Крымского полуострова на побережье Чёрного моря.



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