Cherson (or Kherson) may refer to the following places and jurisdictions :
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Kherson
Kherson (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and , , ) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-bui ...
, a city in southern Ukraine, the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast (province)
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Chersonesus Taurica
Chersonesus, contracted in medieval Greek to Cherson (), was an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula. Settlers from Heraclea Pontica in Bithynia established the colon ...
, an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of Crimea
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Cherson (theme)
The Theme of Cherson (, ''Thema Chersōnos''), originally and formally called the Klimata (Greek: ), was a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) located in the southern Crimea, headquartered at Cherson.
The theme was officially establi ...
, a Byzantine military province located in the southern Crimea, centred at Chersonesus Taurica
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Cherson
The Diocese of Tiraspol was a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church on Czarist/Soviet-controlled territory in and around what is now the republic of Moldova but also in the current territory of Russia and Ukraine. On 11 February 2002, it was ...
(renamed Tiraspol), in and around post-Soviet Moldavia
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2701 Cherson, a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1 September 1978 by Nikolai Chernykh
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