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Crimea, city Sevastopol
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E: 33.488804
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Fiolent - "holy headland" - Cape Peninsula at Heraclea in the southwestern part of Crimea, Balaklava near Sevastopol. West Region Outer Ridge of Crimean Mountains. Nature monument of local significance since 1969.

Fiolent also called Cape St. George, because according to legend the saint appeared to victims of storms Greek sailors on the rocks at Cape St. Appearance. Sailors who survived in 891 founded the rocks on the east of Cape St. George Monastery. Holy cape must have one his name - Monastery-breaker (krym. manastır - Monastery of Crimea. Burun - Cape).

Name Fiolent (Felent, Feolent) first appears on maps of New Russia in 1807. There are several theories about the origin of the modern name. According to the first of them "Fiolent" - a Greek expression "God's Country". According to another, the name comes from the reign of Genoese and comes from Italy. violente - «mad" (Cape frequent sea storms). Another etymology displays the name of the tour. felenk (ramp for launching boats on the water). Russian historian, Crimean.

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