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80 place et down in the Ruian map under the name of Konezek, as it lies on the ea-coaft, about $3⁄5$, of the Way from Panticapæum to Theodoia.

From Cazeca to Theodoia 280 tadia. Strabo computes the ditance between Panticapæum and Theodoia to be 530 tadia. This is nearly true, if it be reckoned in a traight line; but if it be meaured round the capes and head-lands, it will agree nearly with that given by Arrian. The account of the ditance in Pliny is too corrupt to be depended upon. The author of the fragment of the Periplus of the Euxine ea ays, that Theodoia was then called by the Alani, Ardauda, from the even deities worhipped there, as that word ignifies in the Alanic language.

Theodoia was an ancient Greek city, a colony of the Mileians, and, with many cities on this coat, was remarkable for monuments of literature. Arrian remarks, that it was deerted, and probably in ruins, in his time. It till ubits under the name of Kaffa; but whether the modern town tands exactly on the ame ite with the ancient, is doubtful. It had a good port, and was ituated in a fertile country. It recovered itelf during the middle ages under the Genoee government, who took it A. D. 1255, and made it an emporium for eatern commodities. It was taken from them by the Turks, A. D. 1474, and is again in decay, although it till ubbits as a coniderable town.

From Theodoia to a port of the Tauro-Scythaz 200 itadia. We are told by Pliny, that there were everal of thee on this coat.