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Title: Choirades, Kerasous, Pharnakeia
Subtitle: Observations on Three Ancient Place-Names in the Southern Black Sea
Author(s): MANOLEDAKIS, Manolis
Journal: Ancient West & East
Volume: 9    Date: 2010   
Pages: 135-153
DOI: 10.2143/AWE.9.0.2056305

Abstract :
This study concerns three place-names in the southern Black Sea: Choirades, Cerasus/Kerasous and Pharnakeia. The information given in the ancient sources about these three places is collated and examined with a view to discussing their locations, their history, and also the connection between them, a matter on which opinion is still divided.

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