Note 8 — Chapter I · THE CRIMEA.

This name appears for the first time in Theophanes, page 316. He says, “Justinian remembering the plot against him of the Chersonites, the Bosphorians, and the inhabitants of the other Klimata.” Some authors supposed it to refer to the southern coast, but Dubois applies it to the northern slopes of the Tauric chain (the same country which was called Doru by the earlier writers), principally from the following passage in Constantine Porphyrogenitus:—“One part of the nation of the Patzinakes is found next to the Chersonites, of whom they are the carriers. They always treat them well, as it would be easy for them to ravage and destroy Cherson and the Klimata.” He adds, “From Cherson to the Bosphorus are the castles of the Klimata.” Dubois, Voyage autour du Caucase, chez les Tcherkess Abkhazes, en Calchide, en Georgie, en Arménie, en Crimée: ouvrage qui a remporté le prix de la Société de Géographie de Paris, 1838: vol. v. p. 5.