TYRAS  , a See also:

• COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony of See also:

• MILETUS (mod. Palatia)

Miletus, probably founded about 600 B.c., situated some to m. from the mouth of the Tyras See also:

• RIVER

River (See also:

• DNIESTER (Tyras and Danaster or Danastris of classical authors, Nistrul of the Rumanians, and Turla of the Turks)

Dniester) . Of no See also:

• GREAT

great importance in See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early times, in the 2nd See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C. it See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell under the dominion of native See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings whose names appear on its coins, and it was destroyed by the See also:

• GETAE

Getae about 50 B.C . In A.D . 56 it seems to have been restored by the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans and henceforth formed See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• LOWER

Lower See also:

• MOESIA (Gr. Muck and Mveia i)

Moesia . There exists a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of its coins with heads of emperors from See also:

• DOMITIAN (Thus FLAVIUS DOMITIANUS)

Domitian to See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander See also:

• SEVERUS
• SEVERUS, SULPICIUS (c. 363–c. 425)

Severus . Soon after the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of the latter it was destroyed by the Goths . Its See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government was in the hands of five archons, a See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate, a popular See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly and a registrar . The types of its coins suggest a See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• WHEAT
• WHEAT (Triticum)

wheat, See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine and See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish . The few See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions are also mostly concerned with trade . Its remains are scanty, as its site has been covered by the great See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval fortress of Monocastro or See also:

• AKKERMAN (in old Slay. Byelgorod, "white town")

Akkerman (q.v.) . See E . H .

Minns, Scythsans and Greeks (See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, 1909) ; V . V . Latyshev, Inscriptions Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini, vol. i . (E . H .