" Tavriia" = "Crimea"?

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Prof Steven P Hill wrote:

> Dear colleagues &  Prof Fisher:
> 
> My impression is that the Crimean Peninsula was formerly called "Tavriia."
> Hence the hyphenated name of the famous Tsarist hero "Kniaz' Potemkin-
> Tavricheskii" (18th cen.?), for whom Eisensteiin's battleship had been named. 
> I.e., "Prince Potemkin of the Crimea"....
> 
>  (Compare also "Laurence of Arabia." "Semenov-Tiansianskii," etc.)

The name "Taurica" (Greek: Ταυρίς, Ταυρίδα, Latin: Taurica) goes at 
least as far back as Euripides, who wrote of "Iphigenia in Tauris."

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurica>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurida_Governorate>

Others here can certainly fill in any gaps in these basic sources.

-- 
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--
Paul B. Gallagher
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