Phanagoria was the largest
ancient Greek city on the
Taman peninsula, spread over two plateaus along the eastern shore of the
Cimmerian Bosporus. The city was a large
emporium for all the traffic between the coast of the
Maeotian marshes and the countries on the southern side of the
Caucasus. It was the eastern capital of the
Bosporan Kingdom, with
Panticapaeum being the western capital.
Strabo described it as a noteworthy city which was renowned for its trade. Shortly a Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese while a medieval Genosese colony under the name
Matrega, it remains a Latin Catholic
titular see. Today the site is located at a short distance to the west of Sennoy in
Krasnodar Krai,
Russia. Another ancient Greek city,
Hermonassa, lies to the west, on the shoreline of modern
Taman.