Chersonesus
Ancient city
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 500 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 44.612, 33.493
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
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History
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.