An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time, vol. 9 (1779), p. 127.
Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1, 306f. "the peninsula of Crim Tartary, known to the ancients under the name of Chersonesus Taurica"; ibid. Volume 10 (1788), p. 211: "The modern reader must not confound this old Cherson of the Tauric or Crimean peninsula with Kherson|a new city of the same name".
see also John Millhouse, English-Italian (1859), p. 597
Maiolino Bisaccioni, Giacomo Pecini, Historia delle guerre ciuili di questi vltimi tempi, cioe, d'Inghilterra, Catalogna, Portogallo, Palermo, Napoli, Fermo, Moldauia, Polonia, Suizzeri, Francia, Turco. per Francesco Storti. Alla Fortezza, sotto il portico de'Berettari, 1655, p. 349: "dalla fortuna de Cosacchi dipendeva la sicurazza della Crimea".
Nicolò Beregani, Historia delle guerre d'Europa, Volume 2 (1683), p. 251.
J. Dodsley, The annual register or a view of the history, politics, and literature for the year 1783 (1785), p. 364.
Edith Hall, Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris (2013), p. 176:
"it was indeed at some point between the 1730s and the 1770s that the dream of recreating ancient 'Taurida' in the southern Crimea was conceived. Catherine's plan was to create a paradisiacal imperial 'garden' there, and her Greek archbishop ugenios Voulgaris obliged by inventing a new etymology for the old name of Tauris, deriving it from taphros, which (he claimed) was the ancient Greek for a ditch dug by human hands."
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Sergei Starostin, Vladimir Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003), Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Other suggestions include Greek or Mongol etymologies (Adrian Room, Placenames of the World, 2003, p. 96
