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Simferopol is located in the south-central portion of the Crimean Peninsula. The city lies on the Salhir River and near the artificial Simferopol Reservoir, which provides the city with clean drinking water. The Simferopol Reservoir's earth dam is the biggest in Europe.
The name Simferopol comes from the Greek Sympheropolis, meaning city of common good. The spelling Symferopil is also used.
In Crimean Tatar, the name of the city is Aqmescit, which means The white mosque (Aq-white, and mescit-mosque). In English, the name was often given as Akmechet or Ak-Mechet, where Mechet is the Russian word for "mosque".
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