You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Chersonesos

Chersonesos

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: David Braund

Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, Diane Braund

Last modified May 05, 2024 12:41 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement, UWHS

Chersonesos was an ancient Greek colony founded in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula, ancient Taurica. Settlers from Heraclea Pontica established the site in the sixth century B.C.

Show place in Google Earth.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226564

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
44.611092882, 33.4922580049

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Chersonesus Taurica (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARMC location 23904 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Χερσών (Cherson: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 1453)
- Χερρόνησος (Chersonesos: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 640)
- Heraclea Cherronesus (750 BC - AD 640)
- Корсунь (Korsun: Russian, AD 850 - AD 1200)
- Megarike (750 BC - AD 640)

Chersonesos makes connections with:

Chersonesos part of (regional) Taurike Chersonesos (unspecified date range)

Chersonesos receives connections from:

Ktenous Limen located near Chersonesos (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement, archaeological site

References:

Evidence:

See Further:

Related:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 23 G4 Chersonesos

Details:

The site was inscribed as a property on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2013 as the "Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora".

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
David Braund, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, and Diane Braund, 'Chersonesos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226564> [accessed: 30 December 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226564 |title=Places: 226564 (Chersonesos) |author=Braund, D. |accessdate=December 30, 2024 1:26 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

Personal tools

Chersonesos