Abissinka

Abissinka is a locality in Kerch City Council, Crimea and has about 1,600 residents. Abissinka is situated nearby to the locality Yaponka, as well as near the village Yehorove.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kerchenskyi Zavod and Panticapaeum (6c B.C. - 3c A.D.).

Kerchenskyi Zavod

Railway station

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Kerchenskyi Zavod is a railway station.

Panticapaeum (6c B.C. - 3c A.D.)

Archaeological site

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Pantikapaion was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of Crimea, which the Greeks called Taurica. The city lay on the western side of the Cimmerian Bosporus, and was founded by Milesians in the late 7th or early 6th century BC, on a hill later named Mount Mithridat. Panticapaeum (6c B.C. - 3c A.D.) is situated 2½ km south of Abissinka.

Melek-Chesme kurghan

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yehorove and Kerch.

Yehorove

Village

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Yehorove is a village in Lenine Raion, Crimea. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the native languages of the inhabitants of the village were 89.29% Russian, 8.93% Ukrainian, and 1.79% Belarusian.