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    Khersones. The site is part of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos. The name Chersonesos in Greek means "peninsula" and aptly describes the site on...
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  • Chersonese (redirect from Chersonēsos)
    The word is derived from the Greek term for "peninsula", χερσόνησος chersonēsos, from χέρσος chersos ("dry land") + νῆσος nēsos (island). It was applied...
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    The Bell of Chersonesos, located close to the ruins of Chersonesos Taurica, Crimea, is the symbol of Chersonesos and one of the main sights of Sevastopol...
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  • Chersonesos A is an early Medieval Black Sea shipwreck located in suboxic waters off the coast of Crimean peninsula. The ship is believed to be a Byzantine...
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  • Crete), an ancient city in western Crete Chersonesos (Sicily), an ancient Greek colony in Sicily, Italy Chersonesos (Thrace), an ancient Greek colony, also...
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  • Chersonesos or Chersonesus (Greek: Χερσόνησος) was an ancient city of Magna Graecia in Sicily, Italy. It was one of the oldest Greek colonies in Sicily...
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    Thracian Chersonese (Ancient Greek: Θρακικὴ Χερσόνησος, romanized: Thrakiké Chersónesos; Latin: Chersonesus Thracica). The peninsula runs in a south-westerly...
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  • Cimmerian Bosporus "Ancient period - History - About Chersonesos, Sevastopol". www.chersonesos.org. Archived from the original on 2004-08-12. "Romans...
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    modern settlement of Hersonissos is the site of the ancient town of Chersonesos, an important seaport from Classical Greece through Byzantine times that...
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    specifically associated by art historians with Chersonesos. Curiously enough, excavations of Chersonesos yielded an inscription reporting that the city...
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    Anyway". The Atlantic. Retrieved 3 February 2022. "Ancient Chersonesos" [Ancient Chersonesos]. wmf.org/. Retrieved 25 December 2020. "Sailors still battling...
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    are the most famous Greeks of Taganrog. The bell of Chersonesos or "the fog bell of Chersonesos" is considered by many as "one of Taganrog's sights located...
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  • Agora (Ancient Greek: Ἀγορά), also called Cherronesos or Chersonesos (Ancient Greek: Χερρόνησος, Χερσόνησος; IPA(key): /kʰer.ró.nɛː.sos/, /kʰer.só.nɛː...
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  • century and early 8th century. In 704 Justinian II, who had been exiled at Chersonesos for nine years, arrived at Busir's court. Busir, perhaps seeking to use...
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    собор) is a Neo-Byzantine Russian Orthodox cathedral on the site of Chersonesos Taurica on the outskirts of Sevastopol, on the Crimean Peninsula. It...
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    conquered Colchis, Cappadocia, Bithynia, the Greek colonies of the Tauric Chersonesos and for a brief time the Roman province of Asia. Thus, this Persian dynasty...
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    К. Косцюшко-Валюжинич и его археологические отчеты". www.kostsyushko.chersonesos.org. Retrieved 2022-08-23. Considine, Bob (1975). The remarkable life...
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    Chersonese or Golden Khersonese (Ancient Greek: Χρυσῆ Χερσόνησος, Chrysḗ Chersónēsos; Latin: Chersonesus Aurea), meaning the Golden Peninsula, was the name...
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    were established on its south coast, the most important of which was Chersonesos near modern-day Sevastopol, with Scythians and Tauri in the hinterland...
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  • Catalog 2701 Cherson 1978 RT Kherson, Ukraine (not to be confused with Chersonesos, Crimea) MPC · 2701 2702 Batrakov 1978 SZ2 Yury Vasilyevich Batrakov [ru]...
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  • refer to: Places Korsun, Slavic name for the ancient Greek colony of Chersonesos Taurica in Crimea a name of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, Ukraine before 1944...
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  • (Aegospotamos) Alokopennesos, founded by colonists from Aeolis Araplos Callipolis Chersonesos (Agora), founded by colonists from Athens Derris Elaious, founded by...
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  • Khersones can refer to: Chersonesos, archeological site in Crimea Khersones (ship), tall ship from Ukraine MV Khersones, a Russian coastal tanker This...
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    (or had re-taken) some part of the Chersonesos with the help of native Thracians. Cimon sailed to the Chersonesos with just 4 triremes, but managed to...
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     116. ISBN 0195102339. "Ancient period - History - About Chersonesos, Sevastopol". www.chersonesos.org. Archived from the original on 12 August 2004. Migliorati...
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    near the mouth of the Dnieper, and then invaded the Crimea, devastated Chersonesos and seized valuable church objects there. There is a similar legend about...
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    S2CID 128493730. "The Taurians - Ancient period - Outlying areas - About Chersonesos". www.chersonesos.org. Retrieved 2019-02-06. "Taurians". www.encyclopediaofukraine...
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    Pontica on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor founded the sea port of Chersonesos in southwestern Crimea (outside modern Sevastopol). It was a site with...
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    Peloponnesians sailed home, but the Athenians remained to attack the Chersonesos, still held by the Persians. The Persians and their allies made for Sestos...
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  • prevalent method in Europe for naming years. The Sicilian colony of Chersonesos is established (or 716 BC). Assyrian king Sargon conquers the Neo-Hittite...
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