On the Names of Late Byzantine and Post-byzantine Cherson
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2023

Byzantine Cherson, the Empire’s main outpost in the northern Black Sea area, was located in the south-western tip of the Crimean Peninsula. This article addresses new names of this city and, later, its ruins, which appeared from the fourteenth to eighteenth century. According to the written sources, the final decline and depopulation of this city dates to the middle or the third quarter of the fifteenth century. However, before that the Turks who lived in the vicinity called the city Sary-Kermen