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	Chersonesos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chersonesos (Greek: Χερσόνησος, Latin: Chersonesus, Ukrainian: Херсонес, Russian: Херсонес; see also List of traditional Greek place names) also known as Chersonese, Chersonesos, Cherson, Khersones and Korsun was an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2500 years ago in the southwestern part of Crimea, known then as Taurica.
		In the late 2nd century BC Chersonesos became a dependency of the Bosporan Kingdom.
		Chersonesos' ancient ruins are presently located in one of Sevastopol's suburbs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chersonesos (822 words)

	Ancient period - History - National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, Sevastopol
		It is probable that in the second half of the 4th century BC Chersonesos encompassed the rest of the Heraklean Peninsula, the territory which becomes the agricultural basis of the polis until the end of its existence.
		Around the beginning of the 4th century BC began the expansion of Chersonesos into the fertile plains of northwestern Crimea, a consequence of which was the subordination of Kerkinitis and the economic development of a wide agricultural territory in the second half of the century.
		Chersonesos strengthened relations with the Roman Empire in the period from the second half of the 1st to the first half of the 2nd century, when the empire occasionally supplied the city with military assistance.
	www.chersonesos.org /?p=history_ant&l=eng (4252 words)

	National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, Sevastopol
		Chersonesos is one of the leading attractions of Crimea and consequently, there is already a great deal of information about it available on the Internet.
		"Tauric" Chersonesos further denotes the location of the colony, that is, "in the lands of the Taurians." This a warring tribe that inhabited the neighboring mountains.
		At present, the farm plots and estates of the chora of Chersonesos are the subjects of interdisciplinary study by scholars of various specializations.
	www.chersonesos.org /?p=index&l=eng (714 words)

	The Catholic - Dowry of the Grand Prince Saint Vladimir Chersonesos - City of Contention
		It seems that the bishop of Chersonesos may also have been the baptiser of the nation of Rus’ as St Vladimir returned to Kiev and proclaimed Christianity the religion of the kingdom.
		Although Chersonesos was sacked in the middle ages by the Golden Horde, it was primarily the memory of the Sainted Prince which fascinated the 19th century Russian and lead to its rediscovery.
		After the Soviets closed the Chersonesos Monastery, its buildings were turned first into a concentration camp for White Army officers, and then divided between an infirmary for the elderly and a rifle regiment.
	www.thecatholic.org /2003_June/Dowry_Grand_Prince.htm (832 words)

	Chersonesos site on list of world's endangered treasures (11/04/01)
		Chersonesos was a Roman military base and the principal Byzantine outpost on the northern coast of the Black Sea.
		Chersonesos has been called "the Ukrainian Pompeii" because of the extent to which a way of life can be so completely reconstructed from the archaeological remains.
		Today the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, consisting of the museum, the ancient city and the chora, faces many challenges due to a host of reasons: a lack of funding, claims on property of the preserve by the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, urban sprawl and coastal erosion.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2001/440121.shtml (1258 words)

	Beneath the Black Sea: Greek Colonists and Russian Sailors
		During the Byzantine period, Chersonesos (by then known as Cherson) became an important center of Christianity on the northern fringe of the empire, and it was here that Prince Volodymyr of the neighboring Kiev Rus state, the forerunner of the Russian Empire, adopted Christianity in 988.
		Russia wrested control of Crimea from the Turks in the late eighteenth century and found that the same harbors the colonists of Chersonesos found ideal for their maritime-based trade were perfectly suited for the realization of a long-held Russian dream: a warm-water port for the empire's navy.
		Chersonesos is the birthplace of Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Christianity, and a large religious complex, including a magnificent cathedral marking the site where Volodymyr was baptized, occupied part of the site before the Soviet period.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/crimea/dispatch4.html (841 words)

	CSR Remote Sensing of the Environment
		Chersonesos, located on the north coast of the Black Sea, is an ancient Greek colony with a uniquely preserved agricultural territory.
		The Center for Space Research (CSR), in collaboration with the University of Texas Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA), is investigating the use of remote sensing in a comprehensive regional study of this ancient agricultural territory.
		Understanding the overall pattern of the dividing roads and the relationship between the pattern of human settlement and the natural environment is one of the main goals of this project.
	www.csr.utexas.edu /rs/research/arch (159 words)

	Ukranian Rite
		It states that: “When Andrew was teaching in Sinope and came to Korsun (Chersonesos) in the Crimea, he learned that the mouth of the Dnieper River was nearby.
		In 431 and 451 A.D. we find the Bishop of Chersonesos, Eutherius, at the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, and in the 5th century we hear of another Eutherius, a saint who was banished from the city and martyred in the mouth of the Dnieper.
		After the fall of the Roman Empire, Chersonesos served as the primary Byzantine and Christian outpost north of the Black Sea.
	www.papastronsay.com /Ukraine.htm (2244 words)

	CSR Remote Sensing of the Environment
		The ancient Greek colony of Chersonesos, situated on the Heraklean Peninsula in the extreme southwest corner of Crimea, Ukraine, was founded in the sixth century BC.
		The agricultural territory, or chora, of Chersonesos is the best preserved example of an ancient Greek countryside, where many of the stone farmhouses and much of the dense grid of roads that divide the Heraklean Peninsula into some four hundred plots of 60 acres each still exist.
		Chersonesos, largely because of its chora--in danger of severe coastal erosion and urban encroachment--was placed on the World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Monuments of World Cultural Significance in 1996 and again in 1997, for the next two years.
	www.csr.utexas.edu /rs/research/arch/area_description.html (323 words)

	Britomartis
		From some sources it is known, that the Archaic cult wooden statue (xoanon) of Britomartis, made by the great Minoan craftsman Daedalus, existed in the temple of Olous.(2) In the Greek Classical period Britomartis was represented on the coins of the cities Chersonesos and Olous (Elounda), where she became the main divinity.
		It may be that the goddess of mountains was worshipped during the Minoan times at the peak sanctuaries, which are visible at the relief of some stone vases.
		Later the temples of Britomartis were built at Chersonesos and at Olous, where the festival Britomarpeia were performed for her.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/b/britomartis.html (649 words)

	UT Feature Story -- Come to Chersonesos: Institute helps preserve 2,500-year-old city in Ukraine for future generations
		ICA has been working at Chersonesos since 1992 when its director and founder, Dr. Joseph Coleman Carter, was invited to the site by the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos.
		But while Ukraine acknowledges Chersonesos as a critical part of its cultural heritage—an image of the city appears on the one-hryvnya note, the equivalent of the U.S. dollar bill—making this monument to the past accessible to the world has been a challenge.
		Chersonesos is where Slavic archaeology began, and excavations at the ancient city site have been underway for almost two centuries.
	www.utexas.edu /features/archive/2004/chersonesos.html (1762 words)

	ukraine
		Several original scrapbook albums of late nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs of Chersonesos were dismantled in summer 2003 and are currently housed within two storage boxes in the archives.
		Talks were given on Chersonesos, book repair, collections care, treatment decisions, conservator training programs, internship opportunities, and the importance of rallying together to acquire resources for so many newly independent institutions in Ukraine.
		The library at Chersonesos is continually confronted with storage issues for its approximately 30,000 volumes.
	www.gslis.utexas.edu /~tish/ukraine.html (2305 words)

	Chersonesos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Image:Khersones buildings.jpgrightthumb250pxThe remains of the city of Chersonesos
		'''Chersonesos''' (Greek Χερσόνησος, also ''Chersones'', ''Khersones'', ''Korsun'', {{lang-ru/ukХерсонес}}; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimea, known then as the Tauric Chersonese.
		It should not be confused with the Tauric Chersonese, the name applied to the whole of the southern Crimea.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Chersonesos (789 words)

	Saint Cyril - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is said to have learned the Hebrew, Samaritan and Arabic languages during this period.
		The account of his life presented in the Latin Legenda claims that he also learned the Khazar language while in Chersonesos, in Taurica (today Crimea).
		It has been claimed that Methodius also accompanied him on the mission to the Khazars, but this is probably a later invention.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Cyril (1179 words)

	Legacies of a Slavic Pompeii
		While the tourists around them admire the decorative mosaics encircled by seagrass and photograph tumbled columns bleached by the Crimean sun, the worshipers--mostly handkerchiefed old women--focus their sights on a large limestone church that rises from the center of this archaeological landscape, as incongruous as the Russian and Ukrainian warships moored in the harbors beyond.
		Both tourists and the religiously observant are relatively new visitors to Chersonesos (also known as Tauric Chersonesos after the Taurians, a tribe that inhabited southwestern Crimea thousands of years ago).
		Because of this event, Chersonesos is often referred to as the "cradle of Rus [Eastern Slavic] Orthodoxy." And it is this historical legacy, which took root some 1,500 years after the Greeks first landed on these windswept shores, that has complicated archaeologists' dreams of a sunny future for Chersonesos' rich past.
	www.archaeology.org /0211/abstracts/slavic.html (550 words)

	Archaeological Institute of America
		This paper presents a detailed overview of the joint excavations undertaken by the University of Texas at Austin Institute of Classical Archaeology and the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos in the ancient city during 2004.
		Excavations conducted in 2001 and 2002 revealed a residential block that flourished in the 13th century A.D., complete with church, industrial areas, and perhaps an inn or tavern.
		At the same time, further study of human remains from the church has clarified questions about demographics and about the health, diet, and even the personal histories of the residents of this area.
	www.archaeological.org /webinfo.php?page=10248&searchtype=abstract&sessionid=5I&paperid=237 (220 words)

	SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON BLACK SEA ANTIQUITIESLocal Populations of the Black Sea Littoral and their Relations ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Probably, the centre of city life gradually moved form the acropolis rock to the east, and the area along the western slope of Myrmekion hill was used by townsfolk for household purposes mostly.
		The settlement is unique in its character in the chora of Chersonesos, being neither a town or a single farm, but rather a kind of village with the purpose of large scale agriculture, including grain for export.
		The extensive excavations on the site and the ongoing publication offers us an opportunity to study in detail which types of terracottas were in use in the settlement and its necropolis and the contexts in which the various types functioned.
	www.bilkent.edu.tr /~arkeo/blacksea/session7b.htm (3299 words)

	Tauric Chersonesos, Ukraine
		The Ancient City of Tauric Chersonesos comprises one of the most complete and coherent records of Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine civilizations.
		No other Byzantine city in the world has survived as completely with houses, public buildings, churches, and cemeteries remaining virtually undisturbed for centuries, earning the site the sobriquet "the Ukrainian Pompeii." Remarkable as it is, Chersonesos is at risk of being lost forever due to population growth, uncontrolled tourism, and coastal erosion.
		GHF 2002 funding for the Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA) and for in-country conservators from the Kyiv Center for Conservation and National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, your support made a difference in the future protection of Chersonesos's ancient heritage.
	www.globalheritagefund.org /where/chersonesos_content_new.html (183 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11.06
		The first by A. Rusjaeva lucidly summarizes the development of the western religious precinct at Olbia from its foundation in the 6th century BC to its decline in the 1st century AD, while the second by V. Krapivina provides a detailed catalogue of the twenty-three bronze weights discovered to date at Olbia.
		Bilde's paper shifts the focus to religious history, reviewing the evidence for the transformation of the Taurian goddess into the cult of a deer-killing goddess and its spread from Chersonesos to Italy, and suggesting that the critical period for the development of its unusual iconography was the reign of Mithridates VI.
		In "Bosporos and Chersonesos in the 4th-2nd Centuries BC" E. Molev offers a new reconstruction of the history of relations between Bosporos and Chersonesos during these critical two centuries, highlighting the influence of the Sarmatians and Scythians on relations between these two states.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-11-06.html (1200 words)

	Subterranea of Ukrajina: Chersonesos Cave Chruch
		The National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, Drevnyaya street, 1, Sevastopol 99045, Crimea, Ukraine, Tel: +380-692-241301, +380-692-231561, Fax: +380-692-550278.
		On the island of Crimea, in the city of Sevastopol are the archeologic remains of the old Tauric Chersonesos.
		Within the third block of the main street is the entrance to an underground structure, often called the cave church.
	www.showcaves.com /english/misc/misc/Chersonesos.html (98 words)

	Institute of Classical Archaeology
		Its two primary sites of research are the chora of Metaponto on the southern coast of Italy [ancient Metapontum, BAtlas 45 E4] and the chora of Chersonesos on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Crimea, Ukraine [BAtlas 23 G4].
		Both settings offer remarkably well-preserved ancient rural landscapes that were once densely occupied by farmers and still contain abundant evidence of their homes, burial grounds, and places of worship.
		Together, Metaponto and Chersonesos provide a unique chance to compare rural chorai at opposite ends of the colonial Greek world, as well as a valuable opportunity to train students, foster exchanges, and generate international collaboration and good will.
	www.unc.edu /awmc/icaut.html (265 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.70
		Stolba's article discusses Chersonesos' fate in the 3rd century B.C. -- focusing on a break in the second and third quarters of the century -- through the study of Chersonesean and Thasian amphoras in archaeological contexts, previously dated coins, and hoards from the chora of the city.
		In 1991, a cistern in a Byzantine house in the northeastern district of Chersonesos was excavated.
		Once again amphora stamps (Chersonesos, Sinope, and Rhodos), Attic fl-glazed ware, and common ware are used in order to date the fill of the cistern.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-09-70.html (2291 words)

	Holly Robertson \| Conservation Portfolio
		The relationship between the Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA) and the librarians and archivists of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos (NPTC) is a longstanding and positive partnership.
		Its shared goal is the preservation of not only the ancient city walls and artifactual finds, but also the rich scientific and cultural legacy of research and exploration at Chersonesos.
		The Archives and Library of the NPTC house the recorded history of Chersonesos as well as materials which provide context and support to the research activities on the Preserve.
	www.gslis.utexas.edu /~hollyr/portfolio/projects/ukraine/introduction.html (300 words)

	Kardia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The city of Kardia was founded at the mouth of the Gulf of Melas in the Thracian Chersonesos by merchant settlers from Miletos and Klazomenai in the late seventh century BC.
		Around 524 BC, Hippias, the son of Peisistratos, sent Miltiades the Younger to the Chersonesos in an effort to keep the territory under Athenian hegemony.
		Although Lysimacheia remained the capital of the Chersonesos throughout the Hellenistic period, by the first century AD it had fallen on hard times and Kardia reclaimed its position as the preeminent city of the region.
	www.seleukids.org /Kardia.html (408 words)

	ICA/UT: Chersonesos Bibliography
		Carter, J. Color at Chersonesos (on the Black Sea): Funerary Monuments from the Early Hellenistic Necropolis.
		Archaeopalynology of synanthropic vegetation in the chora of Chersonesos, Crimea, Ukraine.
		Twilley, J. Pigment Analysis from the Grave Stele and Architectural Fragments from Chersonesos.
	www.utexas.edu /research/ica/publications/ch_biblio.htm (327 words)

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