| In 90 km of Odessa and 18km from the Black | | | | century the Goths destroyed it. The site was |
| Sea you can find a city which is more then 2500 | | | | repopulated much later by the Tivertsians and |
| years old. It is Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy (The old | | | | Ulychians and named Belgorod. In 1433-1454 the |
| name is Akkerman or Ackerman). | | | | fortifications were renovated by the Turks, the |
| In 600 BC this was the site of the Greek colony | | | | round towers were connected with high ramparts |
| of Tyras. By the 4th century BC it was a | | | | to form enclosed citadel with inner courtyards and |
| prosperous trading center, which even minted its | | | | the fortress got the name of Akkerman. After |
| own coinage. The Getae sacked it in the mid-1st | | | | 1812 the fortress continued to be one of the |
| century BC, but it revived. By the early 2nd | | | | strongholds of the south frontier defense system |
| century AD it was an important outpost on the | | | | of the Russian Empire at least 20 years onwards. |
| frontier of the Roman Empire. In the late 3rd | | | | |