Olbia
Ancient city · Ukraine
- Abandoned
- 301
- Founded
- 700 BC
- Population
- 15,000
- Coordinates
- 46.692, 31.902
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Greek city and archaeological site in Ukraine
History
Pontic Olbia or simply Olbia is an archaeological site of an ancient Greek city on the shore of the Southern Bug estuary in Ukraine, near the village of Parutyne. The archaeological site is protected as the National Historic and Archaeological Reserve. The reserve constitutes a research and science institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 1938–1993 it was part of the NASU Institute of Archaeology as a department.