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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 548 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TYRAS , a See also:

colony of See also:Miletus, probably founded about 600 B.c., situated some to m. from the mouth of the Tyras See also:River (See also:Dniester). Of no See also:great importance in See also:early times, in the 2nd See also:century B.C. it See also:fell under the dominion of native See also:kings whose names appear on its coins, and it was destroyed by the See also:Getae about 50 B.C. In A.D. 56 it seems to have been restored by the See also:Romans and henceforth formed See also:part of the See also:province of See also:Lower See also:Moesia. There exists a See also:series of its coins with heads of emperors from See also:Domitian to See also:Alexander See also:Severus. Soon after the See also:time of the latter it was destroyed by the Goths. Its See also:government was in the hands of five archons, a See also:senate, a popular See also:assembly and a registrar. The types of its coins suggest a See also:trade in See also:wheat, See also:wine and See also:fish. The few See also:inscriptions are also mostly concerned with trade. Its remains are scanty, as its site has been covered by the great See also:medieval fortress of Monocastro or See also:Akkerman (q.v.). See E. H.

Minns, Scythsans and Greeks (See also:

Cambridge, 1909) ; V. V. Latyshev, Inscriptions Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini, vol. i. (E. H.

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