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greek for peninsula, because sometimes you just need a fancier word for almost-an-island.
means an old-fashioned term for a peninsula, a strip of land nearly surrounded by water but stubbornly attached to the mainland.
from from ancient greek khersonesos, fusing khersos (dry land) and nesos (island) — literally a land-island, a contradiction that made perfect sense to sailors mapping coastlines.
golden chersoneseptolemy's name for the malay peninsula
tauric chersoneseancient name for crimea
thracian chersonesegallipoli peninsula in classical texts
english declinenearly extinct outside poetry and atlases now
for instance
gallipoli — called the thracian chersonese by herodotus, 5th century bc
crimea — known as tauric chersonese, home to the ancient city chersonesus
malay peninsula — ptolemy's golden chersonese, prized for its gold trade