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Chersonese (/ˈkɜːrsəniːs/) is a name that was
given to
several different places in
ancient times. The word is
derived from the Gr**** term for "peninsula"...
- town of Gelibolu. In antiquity, the
peninsula was
known as the
Thracian Chersonese (Ancient Gr****: Θρακικὴ Χερσόνησος, romanized: Thrakiké Chersónesos; Latin:...
- "On the
Chersonese" is a
political oration delivered by the
Athenian statesman and
orator Demosthenes in 341 BC. A
short time
later Demosthenes delivered...
- The
Golden Chersonese or
Golden Khersonese (Ancient Gr****: Χρυσῆ Χερσόνησος, Chrysḗ Chersónēsos; Latin:
Chersonesus Aurea),
meaning the
Golden Peninsula...
- and Zealand.
Before that,
according to Ptolemy,
Jutland or the
Cimbric Chersonese was the home of Teutons, Cimbri, and Charudes.[citation needed] Many Angles...
- the
colony was established. It
should not be
confused with the
Tauric Chersonese, a name
often applied to the
whole of the
southern Crimea.
During much...
- the
Tauric Chersonese. However, the
areas most
especially favoured by this wave of
colonisation were the
Trachean and
Sindic Chersoneses,
which not only...
-
known as Tauris,
Taurica (Gr****: Ταυρική or Ταυρικά), and the
Tauric Chersonese (Gr****: Χερσόνησος Ταυρική, "Tauric Peninsula"),
begins around the 5th...
-
historic facts, the
baptism of
Vladimir the
Great took
place in 988 in the
Chersonese (or, as it was
called by the Rus' people, Korsun), now –
Chersonesos Taurica...
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Demetrius I
Poliorcetes launched a
campaign of
raids in the
Thracian Chersonese in 300-299 BCE.
These raids,
directed against Lysimachus, were a last-ditch...
