Place details
Place nameCrimea
Other namesKrymskij poluostrov, Kryms'kyy pivostriv, Krim, Krym, The Crimea, Crimée, Crimean Peninsula, Tauris, Chersonese
CountryUkrayina
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Peninsula in N Black Sea SW of Sea of Azov; was original home of Cimmerian Tauri people who founded Greek-influenced Cimmerian Bosporus kingdom here in 5th cen. BC; colonized by Dorian & Ionian Greeks in 6th cen. BC; annexed by Catherine the Great 1783.