Kerch

Kerch (; ; Old East Slavic: Korchev, Turkish and Crimean Tatar: Ker?) is a city (2001 pop 157,000) on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, an important industrial, transportation and tourist center of Ukraine. The name comes from Old East Slavic ??????? which means throat, alluding to a narrow strait in front of the town (see Vasmer here).

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Kerch

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StateUkraine

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RegionRepublic of Crimea

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Founded7th century BC

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Population157,000 (2001)

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LanguagesRussian, Ukrainian

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Gorodskoy Golova (Mayor)Oleg Osadchiy (2004)

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Phone prefix06561

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Time zoneGMT + 2:00 (Kiev Time)

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Old East Slavic: Old East Slavic was a language used in 10th-15th centuries by East Slavs in the Kievan Rus' and states which evolved after the collapse of the Kievan Rus. Dialects of it were spoken, though not exclusively, roughly in the area today occupied by the European part of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and sever...

Turkish: redirect Turk...

Crimean Tatar: For Crimean Tatar ethos see Crimean TatarsFor Crimean Tatar language and alphabet see Crimean Tatar language...