Anapa, a seaport town, on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, in Russian Caucasus, lying nearly 50 miles SE. of Yenikale. It has a good harbour, and is strongly fortified; and is accordingly an important garrison and naval station, having a brisk trade with Trebizond. Its fortifications were destroyed by the Russians in the Crimean war, but it was speedily reoccupied. Pop. 5037.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 252
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