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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"...
- The
Golden Chersonese or
Golden Khersonese (Ancient Gr****: Χρυσῆ Χερσόνησος, Chrysḗ Chersónēsos; Latin:
Chersonesus Aurea),
meaning the
Golden 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...
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modern Russian and Ukrainian: Херсоне́с, Khersones; also
rendered as
Chersonese, Chersonesos,
contracted in
medieval Gr**** to
Cherson Χερσών; Old East...
-
Miltiades the
Elder left
Athens to
establish a
colony on the
Thracian Chersonese (now the
Gallipoli Peninsula),
setting himself up as a semi-autonomous...
- and Zealand.
Before that,
according to Ptolemy,
Jutland or the
Cimbric Chersonese was the home of Teutons, Cimbri, and Charudes. Many Angles,
Saxons and...
- Cape Baba (Turkish: Baba Burnu) or Cape
Lecton (Ancient Gr****: Λεκτόν), is the
westernmost point of the
Turkish mainland,
making it the
westernmost point...
-
historic facts, the
baptism of
Vladimir the
Great took
place in 988 in the
Chersonese (or, as it was
called by
ancient Russians, Korsun), now - Chersonesos...
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Nausimachion Neandreia Neapolis on the
Bosphorus Neapolis on the
Thracian Chersonese Neonteichos Nerola Nicomedia Oka
Ontoraita Ophryneion Orestias Orni Ostreodes...
