Keppen includes a suitably long discussion of the history of Sudak, which extends back to the 8th century CE. Along the way he mentions that while there were hundreds of churches in the second half of the sixteenth century, his study of the area leads him to conclude that they were quite small.
Creator:
Petr Keppen
Source:
Petr Keppen, O drevnostiakh IUzhnago Berega Kryma i Gor Tavricheskikh (Sankt Peterburg, 1837)
Date:
1837
Contributor:
The Stanford Library copy of Keppen's work was digitized by Google Books.