Tauris as a Toponym
Journal: Античная древность и средние века
Year: 2025

This article addresses the use of the toponym Tauris (French Tauride, Russian Таврида) in the sources from the Classical, Byzantine, and Modern Periods. Today’s mind inseparably associates the Tauris with the Crimea. It is generally accepted that it was the name of the peninsula from the age of the Hellenes. However, in Antiquity Tauris was the name of a different geographic object, i. e. an island in the Adriatic Sea, located at the shore of Dalmatia. The Crimea’s name was Tauric Chersonese or