Tauric

Both tourists and the religiously observant are relatively new visitors to Chersonesos (also known as Tauric Chersonesos after the Taurians, a tribe that inhabited southwestern Crimea thousands of years ago).

Legacies of a Slavic Pompeii 2002

An inspection of the fabulously fertile near-island called the Tauric Chersonnese by the Greeks and Cimmeria by the Scythians was all the further proof Mithridates needed; these lands were ripe for conquest, and must belong to Pontus.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

The earlier work of the CUA led to the identification of the Scythian-Tauric port of Aphineon and the ancient port of Lampas.

Interactive Dig Black Sea: Interview with Professor Zelenko 2006

And in mentioning these two similar cases I am suggesting many other things also to which the Tauric land has resemblance.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

After the Tauric land immediately come Scythians again, occupying the parts above the Tauroi and the coasts of the

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

These reach Southwards to the Tauric land, and Eastwards to the trench which those who were begotten of the blind slaves dug, and to the trading station which is called

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Such I say, if we may be allowed to compare small things such as this with great, is the form of the Tauric land. 662 For him however who has not sailed along this part of the coast of

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

And first they cut off their land by digging a broad trench extending from the Tauric mountains to the Maiotian lake, at the point where555 this is broadest; then afterwards when the Scythians attempted to invade the land, they took up a position against them and fought; and as they fought many times, and the

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

The result was a triumph for Pontus; the sons of Scilurus crumbled, as did the inland Kingdom of Cimmeria; within the first year Pontus possessed all of the Tauric Chersonnese, huge Roxolani territory to the west, and the Greek city of Olbia, much reduced by constant Sarmatian-Roxolani incursions.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Atthis, near the Carystian rock, which my people call Alœ -- here, having built a temple, do thou enshrine the image named after the Tauric land and thy toils, which thou hast labored through, wandering over Greece, under the goad of the Erinnyes.

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides