Thapsis
Θάψις
Thapsis (Θάψις, Diod. 20.23), a deep river of the Chersonesus Taurica, on which lay a royal castle. Ukert (3.2. p. 193) identifies it with the Salgir. But Köhler seeks the castle on Mount Opuk, 45 wersts south of Kertsch. (Mèm. de l'Ac. de St. Petersb. ix. p. 649, seq.)
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.