Chersonesus
Place of martyrdom · Burial place · Port
ancient city in today's Sevastopol, Crimea
Location: 44.6113, 33.4925 · Pleiades 226564
What this place is
- Port — the Black Sea harbour on the Crimean shore, reached by sea from Constantinople
Who is recorded here
- Clement of Rome death · AD 99
- Martin I burial · AD 655
- Martin I death · AD 655
- Saint Cyril the Philosopher travel · AD 860
What happened here
In art
About the place
Chersonesus, contracted in medieval Greek to Cherson (Χερσών), was an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula. Settlers from Heraclea Pontica in Bithynia established the colony in the 6th century BC.
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