The UNESCO-listed city of Chersonesus was founded in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula now part of Russia after the 2014 invasion of the area in an ancient Greek colony founded about 2.500 years ago.
Settlers from Heraclea Pontica in Bythnia established the colony called Hersonissos in ancient Greek, in Crimea way back in the 6th century BC.
In 2013 UNESCO listed Chersonesus as a World Heritage Site for Ukraine, now after the Russian invasion of Crimea it is part of the Russian Federation.
The ancient city on the shores of the Black Sea on the outskirts of the present-day city of Sevastopol is part of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesus which enshrines the history of the entire Crimean Peninsular.
Chersonesus itself in Greek means Peninsula and it aptly describes the site of which the colony was established.
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