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The Cimmerian Bosporus () was the ancient name for the Strait Of Kerch that connects the Black Sea and the Sea Of Azov . The Cimmerians (''Cimmerii'') were the ancient inhabitants who gave their name to a strait that reminded the Greeks of the more familiar Bosporus that separates Thrace from Asia at Byzantium . The straits are about 2.5 miles long and 2.5 miles broad at the narrowest, and are formed by an eastern extension of Crimea (anciently called Taurica ) and the peninsula of Taman, a kind of continuation of the Caucasus . This in ancient times seems to have formed a group of islands intersected by arms of the Kuban River (''Hypanis'') and various Sounds now silted up. REFERENCES SEE ALSO Bosporan Kingdom |