Copa

Copa was a Circassian coastal principality of Zichia, centred on the town of Copa between the Kuban and the Sea of Azov. Genoese merchants attended its spring fair under a consul from Caffa.

In the fifteenth century Prince Berzebuk built a stone castle and joined other Circassian princes in a 1471 treaty with Caffa. Ottoman troops sacked Copa in 1475 and stormed its fortress in 1479, ending the principality. It was regarded as a forerunner of the sixteenth-century Principality of Zhaney.