page_title: Karkinit Bay
hierarchical_section_title: Karkinit Bay
caption_attribution_description: Esperanto: La rokoj de la kabo Tarĥankuto (la okcidenta parto de la Krimea duoninsulo, Ukrainio). Русский: "Большой Атлеш", Мыс Тарханкут, п. Оленевка, Крым, Украина.
context_page_description: Karkinit, Karkinitski, Carcinites, or Karkinitsky Bay is a bay of the Black Sea that separates the northwestern Crimean Peninsula from the mainland Ukraine. It was named after the early Greek settlement of Kerkinitis on the Crimean coast in place of modern Yevpatoria.
  The northeastern tip of the Karkinitis Bay, by the Isthmus of Perekop, is known as the Perekop Bay or Gulf of Perekop.
  The bay contains the preserve Karkinits'ka Zatoka State Zakaznik.
  On the Marcator's map of 16th century the bay is named as Golfo de Nigropoli after the city on north shores of the Pontus Euxeinus. Nigropoli was a city located on the Silch River that flows in a bosom of the Eusino Sea to the west of the Crimea forms its own Gulf
  According to Strabo, another name for Gulf of Carcinites was Gulf of Tamyraca.
context_section_description: Karkinit, Karkinitski, Carcinites, or Karkinitsky Bay (Ukrainian: Каркінітська затока, Karkinits’ka zatoka; Russian: Каркинитский залив, Karkinitskiy zaliv) is a bay of the Black Sea that separates the northwestern Crimean Peninsula from the mainland Ukraine. It was named after the early Greek settlement of Kerkinitis (Κερκινίτης) on the Crimean coast in place of modern Yevpatoria.
  The northeastern tip of the Karkinitis Bay, by the Isthmus of Perekop, is known as the Perekop Bay or Gulf of Perekop.
  The bay contains the preserve Karkinits'ka Zatoka State Zakaznik.
  On the Marcator's map of 16th century the bay is named as Golfo de Nigropoli after the city on north shores of the Pontus Euxeinus. Nigropoli was a city located on the Silch River that flows in a bosom of the Eusino Sea to the west of the Crimea forms its own Gulf
  According to Strabo, another name for Gulf of Carcinites was Gulf of Tamyraca.
caption: Cape Tarkhankut is the southernmost point of the bay
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