Trapezus in the Crimea: A Re-examination of the Sources*

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
Pantelis Charalampakis
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Taman Peninsula ◽  
Satisfactory Solution ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Written Sources

Abstract The author examines the question of the place name Trapezus recorded by ancient sources as being located north of the Black Sea. This toponym indicates a mountain which bears no relation to the Pontic city of Trapezus. According to the written sources only, this place name cannot be identified. On the contrary, as suggested by archaeological evidence and the testimony of Procopius about the Goths Trapezitae, the predominant opinion of Chatÿr Dag appears to provide the most satisfactory solution for the identification of Mount Trapezus. This mountain was never known as Hermonassa and is not related to the Taman peninsula.

scholarly journals Этническая история Северо-Восточного Причерноморья и Крыма в IV–X веках

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Abramov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Taman Peninsula ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
History Of

Автор продолжает серию статей по этнической и конфессиональной истории Причерноморья. Крым и Таманский полуостров издревле для многих народов были олицетворением единения Европы и Азии. Именно отсюда началось приобщение народов Восточной Европы к христианству. Именно здесь в VIII-IX вв. разворачивалось острое противостояние между готами-христианами и хазарами-иудеями. Все эти процессы запечатлены в памятниках архитектуры и археологии, объектах историко-культурного наследия.The author continues a series of articles on the ethnic and confessional history of the Black Sea region. For centuries, the Crimea and the Taman Peninsula have represented for many peoples the unity of Europe and Asia. This is where the introduction of the peoples of Eastern Europe to Christianity began. This is where in the VIII-IX centuries a sharp confrontation between the Christian Goths and the Khazars-Jews took place. All the processes are reflected in monuments of architecture and archeology, objects of historical and cultural heritage.

scholarly journals Geographical variability of length-age structure of the Black Sea sprat Sprattus sprattus phalericus (Risso) (Pisces: Clupeidae) and intraspecific differentiation

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
G. V. Zuyev ◽  
V. A. Bondarev ◽  
Yu. V. Samotoi
Keyword(s):  
Interannual Variability ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Age Structure ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Population Parameter ◽  
Intraspecific Differentiation ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Scientific Technical

Investigations of the Black Sea sprat intraspecific differentiation are the basis for the scientific substantiation of rational exploitation of its resource potential. This work is devoted to the study of spatial variability of length and age structure of sprat as specific population parameter reflecting its intraspecific differentiation. Our own data and materials of Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) of the European Commission have been used. The first time long-term dynamics (2007–2012) and interannual variability of length and age structure of sprat in different geographical regions of the Black Sea (coastal waters of Bulgaria – Romania, Turkey and the Crimea) have been investigated. Differences of the long-term dynamics and interannual variability of length and age structure in these regions have been found. Sprat population from Bulgaria – Romania region is in better conditions (mean length 8.59 ± 0.01 cm; mean age 1.79  year), sprat population from Crimea region is in worse conditions (mean length 7.64 ± 0.01 cm; mean age 1.38 year). It has been shown that the main factor determining the interregional biological heterogeneity of sprat is the different fishery regulations. This fact disagrees with concept of united commercial sprat stock in the Black Sea.

The earliest Greek settlements on the Black Sea

1976 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 18-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Drews
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
The Subject

The date and circumstances of the first Greek settlements on the Black Sea are matters of considerable disagreement. This is the result both of the scattered nature of the literary evidence on the subject, and of the dearth of archaeological evidence for Pontic settlements other than those on the western and northern shores. A century ago it was commonly thought that although the great majority of colonies were sent out in the seventh and sixth centuries, Trapezus and Sinope, as our sources say or imply, were founded in the middle of the eighth. For a variety of reasons, among them an increased reliance on archaeologically secured dates, this view went out of favour, and opinion inclined toward the view that the Greeks did not enter the Black Sea at all until after 700. This view was both expressed in and supported by Rhys Carpenter's thesis that not until the penteconter was invented (an invention which he dated to the early seventh century) could the Greeks make head against the four-knot current which flows through the Bosporus from the Black Sea. Articles by B. W. Labaree and A. J. Graham, however, have undermined Carpenter's argument, and it is now once again not unusual to find references to Greek activity in the Black Sea before 700.

Architecture of One-Apsidal Churches of North Black Sea Coast VI-XII c.

2018 ◽  
Vol 931 ◽  
pp. 790-796
Author(s):  
Viktoria V. Pishchulina
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
The North ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
The One ◽  
Sea Coast

A one-apsidal hall church is always a reflection of so-called “vulgar” Christianity, thus revealing the important peculiarities of the spatial culture of the region where it is erected. In this region we can mark two periods when such temples were built: VI-VII c. and X-XII c. The first period is associated with the missionary activity by Byzantine Empire, Antioch, Caucasian Albania which was conditioned by both geopolitical interests (Byzantian Empire, Antioch) and the shift of The Great Silk Way to the north (Caucasian Albania). The second, as the research has shown, is connected with the migration of the peoples of Abkhazia, the abzakhs to this territory in the XII-XIII c. and the development of contacts with the Crimea. In the North Black Sea Region the one-apsidal hall church appears as early as in the VI c. – in the territory of Abkhazia we know about ten such temples. The temples of this type in the area of Big Sochi are dated back to the VII-VIII c. In the first Abhzaian temples we can reveal the influence of denominational centers – Byzantian Empire, Antioch, Caucasian Albania. In the temples of the Black Sea coast of both periods – introduction of the samples from Abkhazia.

scholarly journals Black Sea coastal forecasting system

Ocean Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I. Kubryakov ◽  
G. K. Korotaev ◽  
V. L. Dorofeev ◽  
Y. B. Ratner ◽  
A. Palazov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Ecosystem Model ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Western Basin ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Forecasting System ◽  
System Project

Abstract. The Black Sea coastal nowcasting and forecasting system was built within the framework of EU FP6 ECOOP (European COastalshelf sea OPerational observing and forecasting system) project for five regions: the south-western basin along the coasts of Bulgaria and Turkey, the north-western shelf along the Romanian and Ukrainian coasts, coastal zone around of the Crimea peninsula, the north-eastern Russian coastal zone and the coastal zone of Georgia. The system operates in the real-time mode during the ECOOP project and afterwards. The forecasts include temperature, salinity and current velocity fields. Ecosystem model operates in the off-line mode near the Crimea coast.

The Baron de Baye's Antiquities from North-east Russia and Siberia

1923 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Ellis H. Minns
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
North East ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
East Russia ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Northern Russia ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
West European

The archaeology of the Black Sea coast quickly attracted attention when the Russians conquered the Crimea at the end of the eighteenth century, and the Scythic barrows of the Steppes began to be carefully excavated almost as soon; but it was not till the fifties and sixties that the less imposing antiquities of northern Russia found any one to study them even among Russians. West European interest naturally came later, the pioneers were first the Finn Aspelin in the seventies and next the Baron de Baye, who about 1890 sought to throw light from the East upon the Merovingian and other Teutonic styles which were his special province.

scholarly journals On the Time and Context of the Earliest Bronze Mirrors in the Northern Pontic Region

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
T. M. Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Steppe Zone ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Critical Revision ◽  
Bronze Mirrors ◽  
Greek Colonization ◽  
Written Sources

Attempts to push the Archaic Scythian culture back in time have led to a disagreement between archaeological and written sources relevant to the appearance of Scythians in the region north of the Black Sea. In the recent two decades, this event was moved from the late 7th century BC, as the documents suggest, to the mid-7th century BC. In this study, one of the chronological markers motivating this date is subjected to a critical revision. Based on new facts, the dates of “Scythian” and Greek mirrors found at Northern Pontic sites are analyzed. Importantly, both “Scythian” and Greek specimens were cultural innovations marking the migration of Scythians from eastern Eurasia and the Greek colonization of the area. Because the nomads lacked the skills required for manufacturing the “Scythian” mirrors, the tradition declined in the 5th century BC. The contacts between Scythians and people of the Northern Pontic forest-steppe zone and of the Greek colonies caused the change in the construction of the “Scythian” mirrors: instead of the central (“Scythian”) lug, a “Greek” side lug appeared, rendering the mirrors “Greek” in shape. It is concluded that replicas of Greek prototypes in the Northern Pontic region can serve as chronological indicators since we know the centers where these prototypes were manufactured––Corinth and Argos. Because Archaic Greek mirrors appeared in the 6th century BC, Scythian assemblages with such artifacts cannot be earlier.

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