What is "cherson"

Cherson (or Kherson) may refer to the following places and jurisdictions :

• Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast (province)
• Chersonesus Taurica, an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of Crimea
• Cherson (theme), a Byzantine military province located in the southern Crimea, centred at Chersonesus Taurica
• the former Roman Catholic Diocese of Cherson (renamed Tiraspol), in and around post-Soviet Moldavia
• 2701 Cherson, a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1 September 1978 by Nikolai Chernykh

The Theme of Cherson (, thema Chersōnos), originally and formally called the Klimata (Greek: ) was a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) located in the southern Crimea, headquartered at Cherson.

The theme was officially established in the early 830s and was an important centre of Black Sea commerce. Despite the destruction of the city of Cherson in the 980s, the theme recovered and prospered, enduring until it became a part of the Empire of Trebizond after the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire in 1204.