The Tauric Chersonese was the name by which the Crimea was known to the Greeks and Romans. Etymology of the name The Greeks named the region after its inhabitants, the Tauri. As the Tauri inhabited only mountainous regions of southern Crimea at first the name was used only for this southern part, but later it was extended to the whole peninsula. Chersonesus Taurica's the Latin version of the Greek for the "Tauric peninsula" (Chersonese literally means "peninsula"). This variant of the name sh… (More on Taurica)