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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 455 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TAURI , the earliest known inhabitants of the mountainous See also:

south See also:coast of the See also:Crimea (See also:Herodotus iv. 103). Nothing is certain as to their See also:affinities. They probably represent an old See also:population perhaps connected with some See also:Caucasus stock; in spite of the resemblance of the name Taurisci they are not likely to be Celts. They were famous in the See also:ancient See also:world for their See also:maiden goddess, identified by the Greeks with See also:Artemis Tauropolos or See also:Iphigeneia, whom the goddess was said to have brought to her See also:shrine at the moment when she was to have been sacrificed at See also:Aulis. See also:Orestes sought his See also:sister, and almost See also:fell a victim to the Tauric See also:custom of sacrificing to the maiden shipwrecked strangers, a real custom which was the ground of the whole myth. His adventures were the subject of plays by See also:Euripides and See also:Goethe. Towards the end of the 2nd See also:century s.e. we find the Tauri dependent See also:allies of the Scythian See also:king Scilurus, who from their See also:harbour of Symbolon See also:Portus or Palacium (Balaclava) harassed See also:Chersonese (q.v.). Their later See also:history is unknown. (E. H.

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