The Bosporan kings were the rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom, an ancient Hellenistic Greco-Scythian state centered on the Kerch Strait (the Cimmerian Bosporus) and ruled from the city of Panticapaeum. Panticapaeum was founded in the 7th or 6th century BC; the earliest known king of the Bosporus is Archaeanax, who seized control of the city  480 BC as a usurper.
The Bosporan kings were rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom, an ancient Hellenistic Greco-Scythian state located on the Kerch Strait (the Cimmerian Bosporus) and ruled from Panticapaeum. Panticapaeum was founded in the 7th or 6th century BC; Archaeanax, the earliest known king of the Bosporus, seized control of the city in 480 BC as a usurper.