Qualla: Isthmus of Perekop https://qualla.com/isthmus-of-perekop en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Isthmus of Perekop https://qualla.com/isthmus-of-perekop Isthmus of Perekop: Introduction https://qualla.com/isthmus-of-perekop/ Everyone who has ever wanted Crimea has had to come through here first. The Isthmus of Perekop is a strip of land only about five kilometers wide, the single thread by which the Crimean Peninsula hangs from the Ukrainian mainland, with the Black Sea on one side and the strange, half-solid salt lagoon called the Syvash on the other. For thousands of years, whoever held this narrow gate held the key to the peninsula beyond. The names it has carried tell you everything: in Greek, Slavic, and Crimean Tatar alike, they all mean roughly the same thing, the Trench, the dug-out, the ditch.

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/p/y/isthmus-of-perekop-wp/u8py-isthmus-of-perekop-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Isthmus of Perekop: The Gate With Many Names https://qualla.com/isthmus-of-perekop/ The naming runs deep, because the digging did. The ancient Greeks called the place Taphros, meaning a dug-out trench, after a defensive ditch cut across the isthmus between the seas, and there seems to have been a town of the same name nearby. The Crimean Tatars borrowed the idea...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/p/y/isthmus-of-perekop-wp/u8py-isthmus-of-perekop-the-gate-with-many-names.mp3 0:06 2 full Isthmus of Perekop: Blood in the Narrows https://qualla.com/isthmus-of-perekop/ The strategic value of the isthmus made it a killing ground. In 1783 the region passed to the Russian Empire, which built up the town of Perekop as a county seat. The twentieth century brought its worst battles. In November 1920, during the Russian Civil War, the Red Army stormed...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/p/y/isthmus-of-perekop-wp/u8py-isthmus-of-perekop-blood-in-the-narrows.mp3 0:06 3 full Isthmus of Perekop: The Lifeline and the Line https://qualla.com/isthmus-of-perekop/ The isthmus carries more than armies. Rich salt deposits in its southern reaches have long made it commercially valuable, and for decades the North Crimean Canal ran across it, piping fresh water from the Dnieper River to a peninsula that has little of its own, until that flow wa...

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