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Chersonesos

Chersonesus, contracted in medieval Greek to Cherson (Χερσών), was an ancient Greekcolony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula. Settlers from Heraclea Pontica in Bithynia established the colony in the 6th century BC.

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