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Taman

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[tuh-mahn] / təˈmɑn /

noun

  1. a peninsula in SW Russia, E of the Crimea, between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. About 20 miles (30 km) long and 8 miles (13 km) wide.


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Further strikes damaged Russian grain export facilities in the ports of Taman and Novorossiysk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Satrio Wiratama was born in November last year in Taman Safari Indonesia, a zoo in Cisarua, West Java, to a pair of pandas loaned by China to Indonesia.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Separately on Wednesday, Russian emergency services blamed a large fire at a fuel depot on the Taman peninsula, which adjoins Crimea across the Kerch strait, on a drone falling on the facility.

From Reuters ● May 3, 2023

Linking eastern Crimea with southern Russia's Taman peninsula across the Kerch strait, it is considered a showcase project of Mr Putin's rule.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2022

The 46th Guards dropped bombs over the Blue Line for six months, right up to the point when the Red Army forced the Germans out of the Taman Peninsula in September 1943.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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