ANAPA  , a seaport

town of Russia, in the government of Kuban, on the N. coast of the Black Sea, 45 M . S.E. from the Strait of Yenikale or Kerch, giving access to the Sea of Azov . It 914 was originally built in 1781 as a frontier fortress of the Turks against Russia . Three times captured by the Russians, in 1791, 18o7 and 1828, and twice restored by them, in 1792 and 1812, it was finally left in their hands by the treaty of Adrianople in 1829 . During the Crimean War its fortifications were destroyed (1855) by the Russians themselves . Pop . (1897) 6676 .