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	Tauric Chersonese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tauric Chersonese (also Chersonesus Taurica as in Latin) was the name given by the ancient Greeks to the Crimean peninsula, now part of modern Ukraine.
		In the 2nd century BC the Tauric Chersonese became part of the kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, before being incorporated into the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC.
		The Tauric Chersonese was eventually renamed by the Crimean Tatars, from whose language the Crimea's modern name derives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chersonesus (221 words)

	CHERSONESE - LoveToKnow Article on CHERSONESE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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 was further distinguished as the Great, in contrast to the Heracleotic or Little Chersonese at its S.W. corner, where Sevastopol now stands.
		The Tauric Chersonesei (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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHERSONESE.htm (730 words)

	Crimea Tour History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		During their rule in Crimea, the Greeks built fortress cities in Chersonesus, Feodosia, Sudak, Balaclava, and Yevapatoria.
		Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine period built fortresses in Gurzuf, Alushta, Kerch and Chersonesus.
		The earliest record of Tauric inhabitants are from Balaclava dating back to the 9th century BC.
	www.tourcrimea.com /TourCrimeaHistory.html (537 words)

	Ukrainian History - Black Sea Region Geographic History
		Chersonesus was founded by Greeks from Boeotia in central Greece.
		From the time of its founding the city was under constant pressure from Scythians and by the late 2nd and early 1st centuries the pressure became so acute that the people of the city appealed to the kingdom of Pontus in northern Asia Minor for military assistance.
		As I learned later, Chersonesus survived well into the 13th century and in the early middle ages was a very important tributary city of Byzantium, with its own Hellenistic culture, complete with elaborate basillicas with mosaic floors, senate, and republican form of government.
	www.waycool2.com /roger/blacksea.htm (1051 words)

	Tauric Chersonese -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		ancient region comprising the Crimea and, often, the city of Chersonesus, located three miles west of modern Sevastopol, Ukraine.
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		The Tauri were famous in the ancient world for their virgin goddess who was identified by the Greeks with Artemis Tauropolos or with Iphigeneia.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9023859 (569 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.12.19
		The basic result of modern archaeological research is "that the settlement on the lower Dnieper was not simply continuous, as had been thought, though there is substantial continuity from phase to phase" (147).
		M.I. Zolotaryov's contribution is closely connected with Bylkova's, and from it one may draw much information regarding the various phases in the formation of the borders of Tauric Chersonesus during the 4th c.
		B.C. As was the case with every ancient city, the border policy of Chersonesus depended on its relations with the other large Greek city-powers along the northern coast of the Black Sea: Olbia, Theodosia, and the Bosporan Kingdom.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-12-19.html (2032 words)

	Ancient coinage of Thrace
		Elaeus, the southernmost town of the Chersonesus, celebrated for its temple and tomb of the hero Protesilaos, who is represented on Imperial coins of Commodus, struck at Elaeus, as a warrior standing upon the prow of a ship (Berl.
		From its position near the narrowest part of the isthmus it became the key of the Chersonesus, and commanded also the passage of the Hellespont.
		Cercinitis, on the western coast of the Tauric Chersonesus (Friedländer, Annali dell’ Inst.
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/thrace.html (8518 words)

	meet-ukraine.org - Welcome to Ukraine! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Vladimir's Cathedral can be seen beyond the fortifications of Tauric Chersonesus, which have become a scene for theatritical performances.
		Ancient Greeks founded a city of Chersonesus, which existed until the 14th century.
		Ancient Chersonesus was a cradle of Russian Orthodox.
	meet-ukraine.org /crimea.php (1708 words)

	Chapter Ecclesiastical Discord. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Such an insult under the tamest reign could not pass with impunity.
		Pope Martin ended his days on the inhospitable shore of the Tauric Chersonesus, and his oracle, the abbot Maximus, was inhumanly chastised by the amputation of his tongue and his right hand.
		But the same invincible spirit survived in their successors; and the triumph of the Latins avenged their recent defeat, and obliterated the disgrace of the three chapters.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25689/17.html (650 words)

	Byzantine Coins of Cherson
		Ancient Cherson (destroyed by the Mongols-Tatars in the 13th century) is the one labeled with large letters - it is not the modern Cherson (founded 1779) labeled with small letters.
		The city is the "Tauric" Chersonesus as opposed to the "Thracian" Chersonesus at Gallipoli on the European side of the Dardanelles.
		In the Greek period, coins of both places are found under "Thrace," although in different subsections.
	esty.ancients.info /Cherson (4300 words)

	The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To this illustrious state might have been applied the proud character drawn by Isaiah of ancient Tyre, which he describes as “the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth.”
		Soldaia was the name given in the middle ages to the place (the Tauro-Scythian port of the ancients) now called Sudak, situated near the southern extremity of the Crimea or Tauric Chersonesus.
		It is described in these words: “About the midst of the said province towards the south, as it were upon a sharp angle or point, standeth a city called Soldaia, directly against Synopolis.
	www.blackmask.com /books105c/marcopolo.htm (13985 words)

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