Tanais

Summary

Tanais is an archaeological site^[1]. Tanais ranks in the top 5% of archaeological_site entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (137 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Tanais is located in Nedvigovka^[3].
• Tanais is in the country of Bosporan Kingdom^[4].
• Tanais is in the country of Russia^[5].
• Tanais's image is recorded as Танаис, археологический музей-заповедник-6.jpg^[6].
• Tanais's instance of is recorded as archaeological site^[7].
• Tanais's instance of is recorded as ancient city^[8].
• Tanais's instance of is recorded as protected area of Russia^[9].
• Tanais's Commons category is recorded as Tanais^[10].
• -0300-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Tanais^[11].
• Tanais was dissolved in +0450-00-00T00:00:00Z^[12].
• Tanais's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 47.270556, 'lon': 39.341389}^[13].
• Tanais's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02v4tw^[14].
• Tanais's official website is recorded as http://museum-tanais.ru/^[15].
• Tanais's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0065126^[16].
• Tanais's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon^[17].
• Tanais's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[18].
• Tanais's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[19].
• Tanais's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11^[20].
• Tanais's heritage designation is recorded as Tentative World Heritage Site^[21].
• Tanais's heritage designation is recorded as federal cultural heritage site in Russia^[22].
• Tanais's kulturnoe-nasledie.ru ID is recorded as 6110044000^[23].
• Tanais's GeoNames ID is recorded as 8143962^[24].
• Tanais's Pleiades ID is recorded as 825397^[25].
• Tanais's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'grc', 'text': 'Τάναϊς'}^[26].
• Tanais's Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID is recorded as 22023^[27].

Body

Geography

Country listings include Bosporan Kingdom^[4], a Hellenistic kingdom^[28], in Ukraine^[29], founded in -0437^[30] and Russia^[5], a sovereign state^[31], in Russia^[32], founded in 1991^[33]. Tanais is located in Nedvigovka^[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include archaeological site^[7], ancient city^[8], and protected area of Russia^[9]. Heritage statuses include Tentative World Heritage Site^[21] and federal cultural heritage site in Russia^[22].

History and Context

-0300-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Tanais^[11].

Why It Matters

Tanais ranks in the top 5% of archaeological_site entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (137 views/month).^[2] Tanais has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] Tanais is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]