What is "chesma"

Chesma (or Chesme, Cesme, from the Turkish Çeşme) may refer to:

• Chesma (mythology), a fountain-spirit or nymph in Turkish mythology
• Çeşme, a small town in Turkey
• Chesma Bay, near Çeşme
• Battle of Chesma, fought in Chesma Bay in 1770
• Four monuments built by Catherine the Great to commemorate this battle:
  • Chesme Church
  • Chesme Column, in Tsarskoye Selo (1778)
  • Chesma Obelisk, in Gatchina (1775)
  • Chesma Palace, in Saint Petersburg (1774–1777)
• Chesma (ship), name of several ships of the Imperial Russian Navy
• Chesma (rural locality), a rural locality (a selo) in Chesmensky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

At least seven ships of the Imperial Russian Navy have been named Chesma after the victory during the Battle of Chesma in 1770.

• Russian galley Chesma - 11-gun galley renamed to commemorate the victory; destroyed by fire in 1796
• Russian ship of the line Chesma (1770) - 80-gun ship of the line that participated in the Battle of Patras in 1772; scrapped in 1781
• Russian ship of the line Chesma (1811) - 74-gun ship of the line; broken up 1828
• Russian ship of the line Chesma (1828) - 84-gun ship of the line of the Black Sea Fleet; hulked after 1841
• Russian ship of the line Chesma (1849) - 84-gun ship of the line that fought in the Battle of Sinop in 1853 and was scuttled at Sevastopol two years later during the Crimean War
• Russian battleship Chesma (1886) - of the Black Sea Fleet; stricken in 1907
• Russian battleship Poltava (1894) - predreadnought battleship captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Tsushima in 1905. Renamed Chesma when she was purchased from Japan during World War I as her original name had been given to a new battleship; broken up in 1924.