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ChersoneseKhersonese

The narrow strip of land which comprised the long peninsula on the western side of the Hellespont.

The Khersonese was settled during the reign of Pisistratus (circa 500 BCE) and further developed by Perikles (Pericles) circa 465 BCE as an Athenian colony; the peninsula was important because of its strategic location and command of the narrow Hellespont; before the Athenians took control of the peninsula it was politically unstable because of the constant threats of invasion by Greek and Asian tribes; the name literally means Land-Island.

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