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| in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. Isaiah 52:10 |
| According to a Crimean pastor/scholar, Ukraine means borderland or edge and "Krim" means the end. Mongol/Tatar horse soldiers looked for a way farther south, but found that there was no way. Crimea was the end of the earth, so they named it Krim, or dead end. Consequently we who work in Crimea put a personal slant on, "ends of the earth" passages like the one above right and Acts 13:47, "For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth." and Psalm 61:2 "From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I." (To learn more about Crimea click on the map below) |
East of the Dnieper people speak Russian generally and the populace is more ethnically Russian.
largely centered around this division. Kiev straddles the Dnieper River, politically and geographically. Crimea is the most Russian of any Ukrainian Oblast or political administrative region. |
Swallow's Nest, a symbol of Crimea
Continuing skyward, the map
below gives a larger perspective
of the position of Crimea. Notice
that it is directly north of Israel! In
fact Crimea is in Israel's time
zone (GMT+2)
Khersonese, the ancient city
where apostle Andrew walked.
Remote and wild Cape Fiolent
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