Chersonesi Promontorium
Χερσόνησος ἄκρα
Chersonesi Promontorium (Χερσόνησος ἄκρα), placed by Ptolemy (6.7) towards the north-eastern extremity of the Persian Gulf, in the country of the Leaniti. It apparently formed the southern promontory of the Leanites Sinus mentioned by the same geographer, and is identified by Forster with Ras-el-Châr. (Arabia, vol. ii. p. 215, comp. vol. i. p. 48.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.