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Title: Tauri Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:tauri URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauri Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT The Tauri, or Taurians, also Scythotauri, Tauri Scythae, Tauroscythae were an ancient people settled on the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula, inhabiting the Crimean Mountains in the 1st millennium BC and the narrow strip of land between the mountains and the Black Sea. According to the sources, the Tauri were the first inhabitants of the Crimean peninsula and never abandoned its borders. They gave their name to the peninsula, which was known in ancient times as Taurica, Taurida and Tauris.