" Tavriia" = "Crimea"?

[William Ryan]

Even earlier - see Herodotus, History, bk 4, 20. Mid 5th c. BC - so 
Latin as a source language (see Frans Suasso's posting) is surely not 
possible, quite apart from geographical considerations. The region is 
still called 'the Taurid' occasionally in English writing.
But all this is a long way from the original philatelic question, which 
is still puzzling if the stamps were of the Soviet period when the 
pre-Revolutionary name 'Tavricheskaia guberniia' had disappeared.
Will Ryan

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

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