Taurida (1,060), a government of South Russia, of extensive area, jutting down in peninsular shape into the Black Sea, and including the Crimea and isthmus of Perekop; forms the western boundary of the Sea of Azov; cattle-breeding and agriculture the staple industries.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Taunton * Taurus