Perekop

Meanings

1. Places in Ukraine:
2. A former fortress-city on the Crimea, founded in antiquity as Taphros, believed to have first been fortified by the Crimean Scythians, rendered uninhabitable in November 1920 by the Perekop–Chonhar Operation of the Russian Civil War; the fortress ruins are known by their Crimean Tatar name, Or Qapı.
3. The isthmus in Ukraine that connects the Crimea with the Ukrainian mainland, separating Karkinit Bay to its west from the Syvash to its east.
4. A village in Suvorove silrada, Perekop Raion, the Crimea, Ukraine, founded in the wake of the fortress-city’s destruction and named for it.
5. A village in Henichesk urban hromada, Henichesk Raion, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1926.
6. A raion of the Crimea, Ukraine, established in September 2023. Administrative centre: Yany Kapu.
7. Places in Russia:
8. An uninhabited hamlet in Verkhnyaya Uftyuga rural settlement, Krasnoborsk Raion, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Northwestern Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1670.
9. A posyolok in Churovichi rural settlement, Klimovo Raion, Bryansk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia.
10. A posyolok in Byakovo rural settlement, Navlya Raion, Bryansk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia.
11. A hamlet in Ozernitsa rural settlement, Slobodskoy Raion, Kirov Oblast, Volga Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1891.
12. A hamlet in Turbino rural settlement, Okulovka Raion, Novgorod Oblast, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

Etymology

From Russian and Ukrainian Переко́п (Perekóp). Compare Perekip and Pierakop.

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