...In 1419, the Genoese Jew Simeone de Ghisolfi married a reigning princess of the municipality of Tmutarakan on the Taman Peninsula named Bikhakhanim, and took possession of this area, most likely centered on the town of Matrega.Richard Löwe, Die Reste der Germanen am Schwarzen Meere, p. 42, Halle, 1896. The de Ghisolfi clan ruled this principality as a protectorate of the Genoese consulate of Gazaria for much of the fifteenth century. Read full entry

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