Archaeology thumb|upright=1.15|Ivan Aivazovsky. Black Sea Fleet in the Bay of Theodosia, just before the Crimean War The Black Sea was sailed by Hittites, Carians, Colchians, Armenians, Thracians, Greeks, Persians, Cimmerians, Scythians, Romans, Byzantines, Goths, Huns, Avars, Slavs, Varangians, Crusaders, Venetians, Genoese, Georgians, Bulgarians, Tatars and Ottomans.
Archaeology thumb|upright=1.15|Ivan Aivazovsky. Blac,k Sea Fleet in the Bay of Theodosia, just before the Crimean War The Black Sea was sailed by Hittites, Carians, Colchians, Armenians, Thracians Greeks, Persians, Cimmerians, Scythians Romans, Byzantines, Goths, Huns, Avars, Slavs, Varangians, Crusaders, Venetians, Genoese, Georgians, Bulgarians, Tata,rs and Ottomans.