Chesma
Chesma (or Chesme, Cesme, from the Turkish Çeşme) may refer to:
- Chesma (mythology), a fountain-spirit or nymph in Turkish mythology
- Çeşme, a small town in Turkey
- Chesma Bay, near Çeşme
- Battle of Chesma, fought in Chesma Bay in 1770
- Four monuments built by Catherine the Great to commemorate this battle:
- Chesme Church
- Chesme Column, in Tsarskoye Selo (1778)
- Chesma Obelisk, in Gatchina (1775)
- Chesma Palace, in Saint Petersburg (1774–1777)
- Chesma (ship), name of several ships of the Imperial Russian Navy
- Chesma (rural locality), a rural locality (a selo) in Chesmensky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
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