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CHERSONESUS

Volume 3 · 36 words · 1778 Edition

among modern geographers, the same with a peninsula *. In ancient geography, it was applied to several peninsulas; as the Chersonesus Aurea, Cimbrica, Taurica, and Thracia, now thought to be Malaceca, Jutland, Crim Tartary, and Romania.