CHERSONESUS, among modern geographers, the same with a peninsula; or a continent almost encompassed round with the sea, only joining to the mainland by a narrow neck or isthmus. The word is Greek, χερσονήσος; of χερσός, land, and νήσος, island; which signifies the same. In ancient geography, it was applied to several peninsulas; as the Chersonesus Aurea, Cimbria, Taurica, and Thracia, now thought to be Malacca, Jutland, Crim Tartary, and Romania.