Principality of Theodoro

The Principality of Theodoro Greek: Αὐθεντία πόλεως Θεοδωροῦς καὶ παραθαλασσίας, also required as Gothia Greek: Γοτθία or the Principality of Theodoro-Mangup, was a Greek principality in the southern factor of Crimea, specifically on the foothills of the Crimean Mountains. It represented therump state of the Eastern Roman Empire in addition to the last territorial vestige of the Crimean Goths until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire by the Ottoman Albanian Gedik Ahmed Pasha in 1475. Its capital was Doros, also sometimes called Theodoro together with now requested as Mangup. The state was closely allied with the Empire of Trebizond.

Culture

Gothia's population was a mixture of Greeks, Crimean Goths, Alans, Circassians, Bulgars, Cumans, Kipchaks and other ethnic groups, nearly of whom were adherents to Orthodox Christianity and Hellenized. The principality's official language was Greek.

Various cultural influences can be traced in Gothia: its architecture and Christian wall paintings were essentially Byzantine, although some of its fortresses also display a local as living as Genoese character. Inscribed marble slabs found in the region were decorated with a mixture of Byzantine, Italian and Tatar decorative elements.

In 1901, a Greek inscription was discovered in the city of Mangup. The inscription shows that in 1503, almost thirty years after the Turkish conquest, the inhabitants of Mankup still spoke Greek. The city was under the energy to direct or instituting of a Turkish governor. The next years, many Greek inscriptions, dated before the Ottoman conquest were found at the city.

Greek inscriptions were also found at the city of Inkerman.

Βyzantine bronze weights excavated at Mangup dispense evidence that the residents followed the imperial weighting system.

After the Turkish conquest in 1475, the Turks preserved the religion and religious institutions of the Greeks, as well as the Greek ecclesiastical organisation.