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The Tauri (; in Ancient Greek), also Scythotauri, Tauri Scythae, Tauroscythae ( Pliny, H. N. 4.85) were a people settled on the southern coast of the Crimea peninsula, inhabiting the Crimean Mountains and the narrow strip of land between the mountains and the Black Sea. They gave their name to the peninsula, which was known in ancient times as Taurica, Taurida and Tauris.
Tauri can refer to
- Tauri, the ancient inhabitants of Crimea.
- Tau'ri, the human race on earth in the fictional Stargate series.
- The genitive form of taurus (e.g. in star designations).
Usage examples of "tauri".
Smeugor and Tauri put their men to work building fine palaces and good roads, so their people are better qualified as builders than they are as soldiers.
Even as Koleika had, Smeugor and Tauri largely kept to themselves after their arrival.
Smeugor and Tauri, who were sitting somewhat apart from the Chiefs and holding a whispered conversation.
For right now, Smeugor and Tauri might be very useful, but when they started to be unuseful, a well-coordinated mutiny might be a quick solution to the problem.
Gher asked eagerly when Althalus returned to the tower from the room where Smeugor and Tauri were imprisoned.
Gher were looking out at the hilltop fort where Smeugor and Tauri were supposedly hiding.
And they passed the Scythian archers, and the Tauri who eat men, and the wandering Hyperboreai, who feed their flocks beneath the pole-star, until they came into the northern ocean, the dull dead Cronian Sea.
The group in this particular table happen to be from the star system of Alpha Tauri, 53.
The limits of Armenia, as it had been ceded to the emperor Maurice, extended as far as the Araxes: the river submitted to the indignity of a bridge, ^86 and Heraclius, in the footsteps of Mark Antony, advanced towards the city of Tauris or Gandzaca, ^87 the ancient and modern capital of one of the provinces of Media.
From the earliest period to the present hour, Armenia has been the theatre of perpetual war: the lands between Tauris and Erivan were dispeopled by the cruel policy of the Sophis.
From the earliest period to the present hour, Armenia has been the theatre of perpetual war: the lands between Tauris and Erivan were dispeopled by the cruel policy of the Sophis.
Thus did he learn in talk with these sailors that this was the city of Tauris in the land of Persia and that the Shah of the land abode now within its walls, having proclaimed a feast for all comers in honor of the Lord Jesu, the Shah having but recently become a Christian.