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	chersoness.ukrainian-women.net (90 words)

	Miltiades - LoveToKnow 1911
		36, 37) he led a colony to the Thracian Chersonese at the request of the Doloncians, who, hard pressed by the Absinthians (or Apsinthians), were advised by the Delphian oracle to invite to their country the man who should first show them hospitality after leaving the temple.
		On the approach of the Persians Miltiades was made one of the ten Athenian generals, and it was on his advice that the polemarch Callimachus decided to give battle at Marathon (q.v.).
		His absence in the Chersonese during the first years of the new democracy (508-493?) and his patrician lineage account naturally for the difference which existed between him and the popular leaders - Themistocles and Aristides.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Miltiades (767 words)

	Thracian Chersonese
		In the 4th century BC, the Thracian Chersonese became the focus of a bitter territorial dispute between Athens and Macedon, whose king Philip II sought possession.
		It was subsequently made a state-owned territory (ager publicus) and during the reign of the emperor Caesar Augustus it was imperial property.
		The Thracian Chersonese subsequently passed to the Byzantine Empire, which ruled it until the rise of the Ottoman Empire in the 14th century AD.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/ThracianChersonese.html (606 words)

	Therese Bugnet x Golden Chersonese seedlings
		I received a number of small Therese Bugnet x Golden Chersonese seedlings/seeds from Joan Monteith this season and wanted to post my initial observations.
		The leaves on all are non-rugose and more like a larger version of Golden Chersonese leaves.
		We are hoping for extremely winter hardy yellows to emerge from this cross.
	www.rosemania.com /_disc3/00000227.htm (92 words)

	Definition of Chersonese - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		/); (2) the Malay Peninsula (the Golden Chersonese); (3) Crimea (the Tau.ric Chersonese
		Learn more about "Chersonese" and related topics at Britannica.com
		See a map of "Chersonese" in the Visual Thesaurus
	www.webster.com /dictionary/chersonese (49 words)

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	The Internet Classics Archive \| On the Chersonese by Demosthenes
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	Chersonese Taurica (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The city was established in 422–21 BC by Megarian Greek colonists from Heraclea Pontica, a city on the southern coast of the
		At the end of the 10th century Chersonese was captured and held briefly by the Kyivan
		Constantinople was captured by the Crusaders, Chersonese came under the protection of the Trabzon (Trebizond) Empire.
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/C/H/ChersoneseTaurica.htm (357 words)

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		xipuo1, dry, and vi ios, island), a word equivalent to peninsula." In ancient geography the Chersonesus Thracica, Chersonesus Taurica or Scythica, and Chersonesus Cimbrica correspond to the peninsulas of the Dardanelles, the Crimea and Jutland; and the Golden Chersonese is usually identified with the peninsula of Malacca.
		The Tauric Chersonese 1 (from.2nd century A.D. called Cherson) was a Dorian colony -of Heraclea in Bithynia, founded in the 5th century B.C. in the Crimea about 2 M. of the modern Sevastopol.
		After defending itself against the kingdom of Bosporus (q.v.), and the native Scythians and Tauri, and even extending its power over the west coast of the peninsula, it was compelled to call in the aid of Mithradates VI.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=15189&locale=en (752 words)

	\| H Xερσόνησος του Ελληνικού Βιβλίου - Chersonese \|
		The Japanese bookstore "Chersonese Bookservice Japan" is the source of Greek books in Japan.
		During the celebration of the 100 years of Greek-Japanese Friendship, he came to Athens and attended a language course at the Hellenic Culture Centre.
		In Chersonese web pages he translated into Japanese, texts from various Greek writers, such as Alexandros Papadiamantis, Antonis Samarakis, Vasilis Vasilikos, Ioannis Theodorou and Sophia Zarambouka.
	www.greece-japan.com /chersonese.htm (379 words)

	Miltiades
		In c.520, Miltiades inherited the Chersonese, the peninsula north of Troy and west of the Hellespont.
		The Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, writing in the 430's, tells us that a generation before Miltiades, his uncle Miltiades the Elder had been advised by the oracle of Delphi to accept the government in this country, which was offered to him by an embassy of Chersonesians, who feared the loss of their independence.
		When the Persians suppressed the revolt, Miltiades was in danger, and when the fleet of his enemies approached in 494 or 493, he gave up the Chersonese and fled to Athens.
	www.livius.org /mi-mn/miltiades/miltiades.html (1403 words)

	Lysimachus Information
		After Alexander’s death (323 BC) he was appointed to the government of Thrace and the Chersonese.
		In 315 BC he joined Cassander, Ptolemy and Seleucus against Antigonus, who, however, diverted his attention by stirring up Thracian and Scythian tribes against him.
		In 309 BC, he founded Lysimachia in a commanding situation on the neck connecting the Chersonese with the mainland.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Lysimachus (612 words)

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		The introductory chapter, and the explanatory chapters on Sungei Ujong, Selangor and Perak, contain information of a rather more solid character than is given in my sketches of travel, and are intended to make the letters more intelligible and useful.* The map by Mr.
		But the Golden Chersonese is still somewhat of a terra incognita; there is no point on its mainland at which European steamers call, and the usual conception of it is as a vast and malarious equatorial jungle, sparsely peopled by a race of semi-civilized and treacherous Mohammedans.
		The whole population of the Golden Chersonese, a region as large as Great Britain, is not more than three-quarters of a million, and less than a half of this is Malay.
	www.cinaoggi.it /arte/letteratura/TheGoldenChersoneseandTheWayThither.html (15454 words)

	Mangup - the lost world
		Up until the middle of the 6th century they were hostile to the Byzantine empire, but later they became allies and joined the federation.
		The town of Chersonese, in the middle ages known as Kherson, is located just fifteen kilometres from Mangup.
		The historian of Justinian I, Procopius of Caesarea, (Kissariisky) wrote that Justinian I rebuilt and renovated the walls of Chersonese and Bospor.
	www.mangup.bigyalta.net /eng/mangup-history.shtml (1460 words)

	Herodotus: Book 6: Erato: 30
		First then he made a wall across the isthmus of the Chersonese from the city of Cardia to Pactye, in order that the Apsinthians might not be able to invade the land and do them damage.
		Now the number of furlongs across the isthmus at this place is six-and-thirty, and from this isthmus the Chersonese within is altogether four hundred and twenty furlongs in length.
		Miltiades then was in possession of the Chersonese, supporting a body of five hundred mercenary troops; and he married the daughter of Oloros the king of the Thracians, who was named Hegesipyle.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/hh/hh6030.htm (1447 words)

	The Tale of Gycia of Chersonese
		(He wished revenge on the city, for the Chersonese army had humiliated his soldiers in battle.) Hearing that Lamachus the president of Chersonese had a fair daughter named Gycia, the king proposed that his eldest son should marry her and so put an end to the hostility between the two kingdoms.
		She was not desirous of making a display, but wished to keep her father's memory bright; she asked grace of the elders of the city, that she might yearly all her life long make a feast on the anniversary of Lamachus' death.
		Now after some time had passed and Stratophilus son of Philomusus was chief ruler of Chersonese, Gycia in her great wisdom wished to make trial of the Chersonites, whether they would remember their oath and bury her in the midst of the city.
	www.iras.ucalgary.ca /~volk/sylvia/GyciaLegend.htm (1491 words)

	Detail Page
		The peninsula's eastern shore forms the western side of the Hellespont—the 33-mile-long strait that was a crucial part of the ancient trade route to the Black Sea.
		After the Persian Wars, the Chersonese settlements were dominated by Athens through the Delian League.
		The Chersonese had two chief cities, both Greek: Sestos, which was the commanding fortress of the Hellespont; and Cardia, on the peninsula's western side.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0126 (217 words)

	CHERSONESUS CHERSONESE - Online Information article about CHERSONESUS CHERSONESE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		CRIMEA (ancient Tauris or Tauric Chersonese, called by the Russians by the Tatar name Krym or Crim)
		Chersonese is usually identified with the peninsula of Malacca.
		The Tauric Chersonese was further distinguished as the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHA_CHR/CHERSONESE_CHERSONESUS.html (1015 words)

	History of Crimea
		The great colony of Chersonese was established in the district of present-day Sevastopol.
		Chersonese became a vassal state of the Roman Empire.
		After waging a campaign against Chersonese, the Kievan prince Vladimir spread Christianity from Crimea throughout Kievan Rus.
	www.xenophon-mil.org /crimea/crimhis.htm (940 words)

	Miltiades
		After the death of his brother Stesagoras (some time in the last quarter of the 6th century BC), Miltiades the son of Cimon was sent out by the Athenians to lead the colony in Chersonese (roughly modern Gallipoli) which had been founded by their uncle (also called Miltiades).
		En route for Chersonese he tried to annex the island of Lemnos for Athens, but the islanders just laughed at him and said they would voluntarily surrender if he ever sailed to Lemnos from home with a wind blowing from the north -- totally the wrong direction if he was coming from Athens(see footnote).
		Miltiades was able to claim the Chersonese was now his home, and thus fill his end of his bargain by sailing to Lemnos from home with the north wind.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ancient_biographies/105706 (474 words)

	Biographies: Miltiades :: 0 A.D. :: Wildfire Games
		Miltiades was the ruler of Chersonese, a peninsula north of Troy.
		Herodotus tells us that Miltiades’s uncle, Miltiades the Elder, was offered Chersonese by the Chersonesians in the 430’s BC and the oracle of Delphi advised him to take it.
		When Miltiades inherited Chersonese, he was mourning of his brother.
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	Herodotus' Inquiries, Book 6: installment 32
		And the Chersonesians, when they were learning that by inquiry, were gathered together from all their cities, those who were dynasts from every place, and with a common expedition having come with the intention that they would join in being pained, they were bound by him.
		Miltiades indeed got a hold of the Chersonese and was maintaining five hundred auxiliaries, and he married Olorus the Thracians’ king’s daughter, Hegesipyle.
		Indeed that son of Cimon, Miltiades, recently had gone to the Chersonese and there were befalling him, after he had gone, other things more difficult than the affairs that were prevailing.
	www.losttrails.com /pages/Tales/Inquiries/Herodotus_32.html (3410 words)

	Taurica at AllExperts
		Taurica (,) also known as Tauris, Taurida, Tauric Chersonese, and Chersonesus Taurica was the name of Crimea in Antiquity.
		As the Tauri inhabited only mountainous regions of southern Crimea at first the name Tauris was used only to this southern part, but later it was extended to name the whole peninsula.Sometimes Taurica is referred to as Tauric Chersonese or Chersonesus Taurica.
		This variant of the name should not be confused with the city of Chersonesos.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/ta/taurica.htm (548 words)

	Poke's Fifteen Decisive Battles
		The principal men of the Chersonese, hearing of this, assembled from all the towns and districts, and went together to the house of Miltiades, on a visit of condolence.
		The fact of Miltiades having so ruled in the Chersonese was undeniable; but the question which the Athenians assembled in judgment must have tried, was whether Miltiades, although tyrant of the Chersonese, deserved punishment as an Athenian citizen.
		As before has been remarked, Miltiades, while prince of the Chersonese, had seen service in the Persian armies; and he knew by personal observation how many elements of weakness lurked beneath their imposing aspect of strength.
	www.standin.se /fifteen1a.htm (9477 words)

	Crimea (Sevastopol) Facts & Figures
		Founded on the territory of antique Chersonese, where in 988 the Kyivan prince Volodymyr was converted to Christianity, Sevastopol stands out as the place of imperishable orthodoxy teachings of Apostle Andrey and traditions of the creators of the Cyrillic alphabet Cyril and Mephody.
		There are up to 1,800 historic memorials, among which are the world famous Chersonese Taurica, Panorama of the Heroic Defense of Sevastopol in 1854-1855, Crimean War Memorial, etc.
		Under the Soviet times Sevastopol was a "closed city." The Decree of the Ukrainian Government of 1995 "opened" the city and allowed the foreigners and foreign ships to come into the city.
	www.ukrainebiz.com /Articles/CrimeaFacts.htm (790 words)

	chersonese - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Chersonese : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Chersonese : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
		CHERSONESE : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=chersonese (203 words)

	Christianization of Ukraine
		When the emperor refused to carry out his promise, Volodymyr captured the Byzantine colony of
		Chersonese Taurica and forced the emperor to sign a peace treaty.
		In fulfillment of its terms Volodymyr ordered that all his people be baptized in 988–9.
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/C/H/ChristianizationofUkraine.htm (938 words)

	UkraineTour - Travel to Ukraine and Russia - Accommodation, Transportation and Guide Services
		Seaport and an industrial, scientific, and cultural center of Ukraine built on the site where during the 5th-6th B.C. Chersonese city-state was the bastion of the Byzantine Empire on the northern shore of the Black Sea.
		Construction of the port and military settlement was begun. You"ll see monuments to heroes who defended Sevastopol during the Russo-Turkish War of 1854-1855 and during the Soviet-German War of 1941-1944.
		Observe other historical sights of Sevastopol. And after lunch in Sevastopol restaurant you"ll go to ruins of the city of Chersonese Taurice, located in the western part of Sevastopol on the Heraclian Peninsula.
	www.ukrainetour.com /index2.php?obj=tour&name=Ukraine&ID_t=19&ID_city=18&unrolled=false (475 words)

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