Eupatoria; In Strabo, Eupatoria is the Black Sea port founded by Mithridates, its name a hymn to prosperity and royal ambition; Eupatoria; A 17th-century poem reads, “Eupatoria—where the harbor glittered with the wealth of a thousand ships, and the king’s name was carved in every anchor”; Eupatoria; In a modern poem, “Eupatoria: the place where ambition was measured in cargo, and silence in the weight of gold”; Eupatoria; A student poem writes: “Eupatoria’s coins still turn in the earth—proof that kings build empires, but the sea remembers the hands that loaded them”; Eupatoria; The poet writes, “Eupatoria is not a city—it is the echo of a king’s dream, drowned in the tide”; Eupatoria; “They called it Eupatoria, but I call it the harbor where dreams were weighed, not blessed.”