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Symbolon portus

  Symbolon Portus (Sumtholon limen, Ptol. iii. 6. § 2; Sumbulou limen, Arrian, Per. Pont. Eux. p. 20), a harbour with a narrow entrance on the S. coast of the Chersonesus Taurica, between the town of Chersonesus and the port of Cienus. In ancient times it was the chief station for the pirates of the Tauric peninsula. (Strab. vii. p. 309; Plin. iv. 12. s. 26; Anon. Per. Pont. Eux. p. 6.) Now the port of Balaklava. (Comp. Clarke's Travels, ii. p. 398; Pallas, ii. p. 128.)

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Taphrae

  Taphrae or Taphros (Taphrai, Steph. B. p. 642; cf. Mela, ii. 1; Plin. iv. 12. s. 26; Taphros, Ptol. iii. 6. § 5), that part of the neck of the Chersonesus Taurica which was cut through by a dyke and fortified (Herod. iv. 3). Pliny and Ptolemy (ll. cc.) mention a town called Taphrae; and Strabo (vii. 308) also notices at this spot a people called Taphrioi. (Cf. D'Anville, Mem de l'Ac. d. Inscr. xxxvii. p. 581; Rennell, Geogr. of Herod. p. 96; Mannert, iv. p. 291.) Perecop, or Prezecop, the modern name of the isthmus, also signifies in Russian a ditch or entrenchment. (Clarke, Trav. ii. p. 316.)

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Lampas harbour

  Lampas, a harbour on the E. coast of the Tauric Chersonese, 800 stadia from Theodosia, and 220 stadia from Criu-Metopon. (Arrian, Peripl. p. 20; Anon. Peripl. p. 6.) Arrian uses the two names Lampas and Halmitis as if they belonged to the same place, but the Anonymous Coast-describer speaks of Lampas alone. Halmitis probably took its name from being a place for salting fish. The name is preserved in the places now called Biouk-Lambat and Koutchouk-Lambat, Tartar villages at the end of a bay defended by the promontory of Plaka, near which ancient ruins have been found. (Dubois de Montpereux, Voyage actour du Caucase, vol. v. p. 713, vol. vi. p. 460; Rennell, Compar. Geog. vol. ii. p. 340.)

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