" Tavriia" = "Crimea"?

[Frans Suasso]

Thaanks for straightening out my classics.
The problem with the stamps is that the area changed hands a couple of times 
after april 1918.  The Germans invaded it in mid april, and after two weeks 
the Tavricheskaya Sosialisticheskaya Respulika - that had replaced  the 
Tavricheskaya Guberniya - fell and ceased to exist and the Whites took over. 
 One is tempted to believe that after that the Soviet stamps that been used 
for a month or so  were cancelled. Similar things must have happened a lot 
of times during the civil war period. Would this suggestion be of any help?

Frans Suasso





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From: "William Ryan" <wfr at SAS.AC.UK>
To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] " Tavriia" = "Crimea"?


> 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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