Excavations revealed to the world a city that for many centuries was a major political, economic and cultural center of the Northern Black Sea region.
Chersonesus was a Greek colony founded in 422-421. BC e. came from Heraclea Pontus. It is located in the southwestern part of Crimea, near the bay, which is currently called Karantinnaya. Translated from Greek, “Chersonese” means peninsula.
