page_title: Principality of Theodoro
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Principality of Theodoro / Culture
caption_attribution_description: Фрески Храма Трех всадников. Эски-Кермен. Бахчисарайский р-н. Крым. Россия. Сентябрь 2014
context_page_description: The Principality of Theodoro, also known as Gothia or the Principality of Theodoro-Mangup, was a Greek-speaking
  principality in the south-west of Crimea. It represented both the final rump-state of the Byzantine Empire and the last territorial vestige of the Crimean Goths until its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1475. Its capital was Doros, also sometimes called Theodoro and now known as Mangup. The state was closely allied with the Empire of Trebizond.
context_section_description: Gothia's population was a mixture of Greeks, Crimean Goths, Alans, Bulgars, Cumans, Kipchaks and other ethnic groups, most of whom were adherents to Orthodox Christianity and Hellenized. The principality's official language was Greek.
  Various cultural influences can be traced in Gothia: its architecture and Christian wall paintings were essentially Byzantine, although some of its fortresses also display a local as well as Genoese character. Inscribed marble slabs found in the region were decorated with a mixture of Byzantine, Italian and Tatar decorative elements.
caption: Fresco from Eski Kermen showing St. George killing the dragon (13th-14th centuries)
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