Simferopol can become 2000 older and change the coat of arms

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It will allow the capital of the Crimea get to UNESCO lists, involve tourists and «improbable» means.
The chairman of Republican committee on protection of the cultural heritage Sergey Tur has sent the letter the mayor of Simferopol Victor Ageev in which he has asked to consider the problem on change of chronology of the city. In particular, the basis to consider 185 year B.C. It is the occurrence of the capital of the Scythian state of Naples Scythian, the newspaper Today writes.

«In the result of long archaeological researches of this monument powerful defensive walls, the rests of palaces, the imperial mausoleums were discovered… All information known now confirms that Naples Scythian was the most ancient settlement of the Crimea possessing the capital status», – is told in the letter. – It allows to bring the attention to the question about considerable youngering of historical age of the capital of the Crimea … We consider expedient to make change to the data about official historical age of Simferopol, thereby having increased it from 226 till 2196″.
Social council at the executive committee of the City Council of the Crimean capital supported this idea. The head of department of culture Aurika Dribnaja said that before to make changes, it is necessary to spend the round table with historians and to make the uniform decision that there were no further disagreements.
The responsible for communication with mass-media of Republic commettee on protection of cultural heritage George Kogonoshvili, «aging» of Simferopol will allow to get to UNESCO lists, become the international city-monument. He has noticed that thus the Crimean capital will involve the large quantity of tourists, researchers of history and improbable means.
At the same time possible change of the arms is considered: presumably on the ancient image of the Scythian horseman.

source: http://fresh.org.ua