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Kerch Strait (open water)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/15770

A strait of water bordering the Crimea (also known as the Crimean Bosporus)

Names

  • Greek: Βοσπόρῳ, Βόσπορον = Bosporō, Bosporon 1

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Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 1 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014

Sources

  • 1Bosporos: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.25, 32; 6.3-5 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Josh Kuch, “Kerch Strait” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/15770.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; Wikipedia matching; and categorization, matching, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
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