The Crimean Peninsula (at the time known as Taurica) was under partial control of the Roman Empire during 47 BC to c. 340 AD and the 6th to 13th century. The territory under Roman control mostly coincided with the Bosporan Kingdom (although under Nero, from 62 to 68 AD, it was briefly attached to the Roman Province of Moesia Inferior).
Rome lost its influence in Taurica in the mid third century AD, when substantial parts of the peninsula fell to the Goths, but at least nominally the kingdom survived until the 340s AD. The Eastern Roman Empire, that survived the loss of the western parts of its empire, later regained Crimea under Justinian I and controlled portions of the peninsula well into the Late Middle Ages, particularly through the successor states of the Empire of Trebizond and the Principality of Theodoro.