CAFFA, or Kaffa, a city and port town of Crim-Tartary, situated on the south-east part of that peninsula. E. Long. 37. o. N. Lat. 44. 55.
It is the most considerable town in the country, and gives
gives name to the straits of Caffa, which run from the Euxine or Black sea, to the Palus Mæotis, or sea of Asoth.