See also Chersonese, Thracian.
To Athens he ceded the Thracian Chersonese (357); to the pretenders he relinquished western Thrace.
Charidemus was credited with restoring the strategic Thracian Chersonese (modern Gallipoli Peninsula) to Athens in 357 a deed for which he received a golden crown.
Miltiades' family must have been extraordinarily wealthy; his father, Cimon, three times won the chariot races at the Olympic Games, while his uncle, after whom he was named, was the founder of an Athenian semi-independent principality in the Thracian Chersonese (now the Gallipoli Peninsula).
To the Greeks of the Tauric Chersonese and the Cimmerian Bosporus (Crimea and Straits of Kerch), Mithradates was a deliverer from their Scythian enemies, and they gladly surrendered their independence in return for the protection given to them by his armies.
Cnidus, ancient Greek city on the Carian Chersonese, on the southwest coast of Anatolia.
He must also have been concerned in the trial of Miltiades, the great Athenian aristocrat and general, who arrived in flight from the Chersonese (Gallipoli Peninsula) and was prosecuted by aristocratic rivals for having ruled there as a tyrant.
Thracian Chersonese, ancient region comprising the modern Gallipoli Peninsula, located on the European side of the Hellespont (the Dardanelles, in modern Turkey).
But the revolt collapsed by 494, and the year after, when Darius' fleet appeared off the Chersonese, Miltiades loaded five boats with his treasures and made for Athens.
As his reward Eumenes was given control over the Thracian Chersonese (modern Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey) and over most of the former Seleucid possessions in Asia Minor.
He was succeeded as tyrant in the Chersonese by Stesagoras, son of his half-brother Cimon.
