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Chersonese

ΧΕΡΣΟΝΗΣΟΣ (Χερσόνησος) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
  Thracian peninsula on the northern border of the Hellespont (today's Dardanelles), the strait leading from the Aegean Sea to Propontis (today's Sea of Marmara) and the Euxine Pontus (today's Black Sea).
  “Chersonesos” is in fact the Greek word for “peninsula”. Thus, several other peninsulas, aside from Thracian Chersonese, where also called “Chersonese”, including Taurician Chersonese, or Tauris (today's Crimea) ; the Chersonese of Bybassia, the peninsula on which was located the city of Cnidus in southern Asia Minor ; and a peninsula on the coast of the Saronic Gulf, between Troezen and Epidaurus.

Bernard Suzanne (page last updated 1998), ed.
This text is cited July 2003 from the Plato and his dialogues URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.

• http://plato-dialogues.org/tools/loc/chersnes.htm