Kerch

[ kerch; Russian kyerch ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Kerch

/ kjertʃ /

a port in S Ukraine on the Kerch Peninsula and the Strait of Kerch (linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov): founded as a Greek colony in the 6th century bc ; ceded to Russia in 1774; iron-mining, steel production, and fishing. Pop: 153 000 (2005 est)

About $10 billion was earmarked to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, with its unpredictable currents during spring floods.

The Keltic names are quite different:1887 Irish coirce, cuirce, corca, Armorican kerch.

That of Alexander Nevsky was formerly the Kerch museum of antiquities, founded in 1825.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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