File:Black Sea settlements of the Archaic and Classical Periods by earliest literary 'foundation' date.svg

English: en|1=Map of the Black Sea area (modern shorelines) and the Sea of Marmara with the main settlements of the Archaic and early Classical Period classified by their earliest 'foundation' date in the ancient literary sources.

Sources:

Dates and previous local population data from Tsetskhladze 2006, lxvii-lxxiii.
Data for Pichvnari from Vickers and Kakhidze 2001, previous local population for Sinope from Doonan 2004, 51-67.
Uncertain data was nonetheless used as provided.
Location data from the Pleiades database (http://pleiades.stoa.org).
Topographic data from Natural Earth (https://www.naturalearthdata.com/)

Modern names and names of sites with uncertain ancient associations in italics.

Note that Sinope has two foundation dates, with Pseudo-Scymnus suggesting pre-757 BCE, and Eusebius, the early 7th century. Pseudo-Scymnus' date was used here, as it is the earliest.

References:

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. (2006) "Introduction: Revisiting Ancient Greek Colonisation" in Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. , ed. Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, Mnemosyne Supplement 193, 1, Brill, pp. xxiii–lxxxiii ISBN: 978-90-04-12204-8.

Vickers, Michael; Kakhidze, Amiran (2001). "The British-Georgian Excavation at Pichvnari 1998: The ‘Greek’ and ‘Colchian’ Cemeteries". Anatolian Studies 51: 65–90. DOI:10.2307/3643028. ISSN 2048-0849.

Doonan, Owen P. (2004) "Sinop before Colonial Times" in Sinop landscapes: exploring connection in a Black Sea hinterland (1^st ed.), University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, pp. 51−68 ISBN: 978-1-931707-65-7.

Doonan, Owen P.; Hüseyin, Vural; Goldman, Andrew; Bauer, Alexander; Rempel, Jane; Sherratt, Susan; Krotschek, Ulrike; Maranzana, Paolo; Sökmen, Emine "Sinop Kalesi Archaeological Excavations, 2015-2016 Field Seasons" in (2018) The Archaeology of Anatolia Volume II: Recent Discoveries (2015-2016), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 178–199 ISBN: 978-1-5275-1565-9.

Pleiades: A community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. Pleiades: A community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places (2006). Retrieved on 16 June 2019.