Bosporus in The Byzantine Period
A few centuries after the Hunnic invasion, the Bosporan cities enjoyed a revival, under Byzantine (and Bulgarian) protection. Phanagoria was the capital of old "Great Bulgaria". From time to time Byzantine officers built fortresses and exercised authority at Bosporus, which constituted an archbishopric.
They also held Ta Matarcha on the eastern side of the strait, a town which in the 10th and 11th centuries became the seat of the Kievan Rus principality of Tmutarakan, which in turn gave way to Tatar domination.
Following the Diaspora, and aided by the Khazar state, a Jewish element had been added to the population, and Jewish communities developed in all the cities of the region (especially Tanais) of "worshipers of the highest God," apparently professing a monotheism without being distinctively Jewish or Christian.
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