Isthmus of Perekop
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A map showing the Isthmus of Perekop The Isthmus of Perekop, literally Isthmus of the Trench （Ukrainian: Перекопський перешийок; transliteration: Perekops'kyy pereshyyok; Russian: Перекопский перешеек; transliteration: Perekopskiy peresheek,
Crimean Tatar: Or boynu, Turkish: Orkapı; Greek: Τάφρος; transliteration: Taphros） is the narrow, 5–7 kilometres （3.1–4.3 mi） wide strip of land that connects the Crimean Peninsula to the mainland of Ukraine.
The isthmus projects between the Black Sea to the west and the Sivash to the east.
The isthmus takes its name of "Perekop" from the Tatar fortress of Or Qapi.
The border between Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Kherson Oblast runs through the northern part of the isthmus.
Since the Russian military annexation of Crimea in 2014, this is also the de facto northern border of the Russian Republic of Crimea.
The cities of Perekop, Armyansk, Suvorovo （Crimea） and Krasnoperekopsk are situated on the isthmus.
The North Crimean Canal ran through the isthmus, supplying Crimea with fresh water from the Dnieper River.
Ukraine closed the canal in 2014, and the water supply was replaced by other local and Russian sources.
South of Perekop lie rich salt ores which remain very important commercially for the region.
The name Taphros in Greek means a dug-out trench, per a defensive trench dug between the Azov sea and the Black sea; there also appears to have been a town in the vicinity of the same name.
The Crimean Tatar name of Or Qapı adopts the Greek in the Crimean Tatar language meaning Or=trench and Qapı=gate, and Perekop in the Slavic languages literally means a dug-out.
The strategic and commercial value of this area, together with the strategic value of being the gateway to Crimea, has made the isthmus the location of some particularly fierce battles.
From antiquity through the Byzantine era the Greeks fortifie...
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