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Crimea (general region) |
Note: Peninsula in N Black Sea SW of Sea of Azov. Archaeological evidence of human settlement in Crimea dates back to the Middle Paleolithic; Neanderthal remains found at Kiyik-Koba Cave have been dated to about 80,000 before present. Was original home of Cimmerian Tauri people who founded Greek-influenced Cimmerian Bosporus kingdom here in 5th cen. BCE; colonized by Dorian & Ionian Greeks in 6th cen. BCE; annexed by Catherine the Great 1783. |
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| Krym (preferred,C,V)
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| Krymskij poluostrov (C,V)
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| Kryms'kyy pivostriv (C,V)
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| Krim (C,V)
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| Crimea (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| The Crimea (C,O)
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| Crimée (C,O)
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| Crimean Peninsula (C,O)
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| Chersonesus Taurica (C,V)
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| Khersones Tavriĭsʹkyĭ (C,V)
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| Khersones Tavricheskii (C,V)
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| Tauric Chersonesus (C,V)
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| Χερσόνησος Ταυρική (C,V,Greek,U)
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| Crimea peninsula (C,U,English)
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| חצי האי קרים (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Chersonese (H,V)
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............ | Greek name, meaning "peninsula" |
| Tauris (H,V)
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