Drevnie greki v Severo-Zapadnoĭ Tavrike
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translation: The ancient Greeks in the Northwest Taurica
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The book tells about the role of the ancient Greeks in the development of the North-West coast of Crimea. There are three waves in the history of the settlement of this part of the peninsula. First, at the end of the era of the Great Greek colonization, in the middle of the VI century. BC here appear the Ionian Karkinitida and the still uninhabited mysterious cities of Dandaka and Tamiraka. During the period of secondary Ionian colonization, at the turn of the V-IV centuries. BC, several more settlements were formed (Panskoe, Kalos Limen, Kulchuk, Kara-Tobe, Novo-Fedorovka). Nevertheless, at this stage the Hellenic fortifications were isolated intakes over a considerable part of the coast. The situation was quite different in the second half of the fourth century. BC, during the third stage of settlement of the coastal western strip of the steppe peninsula by the Dorian Chersonese. At that time, dozens of new settlements were founded, vineyards were broken, virgin lands were plowed both along the coast and in the interior of the plains of Crimea. The population of the region was so dense that individual points were located a few kilometers from each other. Among them there are cities-polises (Kerkinitida), towns-polychnions (Kalos Limen), villages-comas, hamlets, separate estates or a bush of several estates blocked together with towers or without such, lighthouses. In essence, a new ecosystem was created, modeled as close as possible to the homeland of the Greeks: to the geographical conditions of the metropolis. In agriculture, new varieties of wheat were introduced into crop rotation, primarily soft, the main export food crop, which was supplied to Ancient Greece. Gardens were planted and vineyards planted that had not previously been cultivated in the Crimean steppe. Thus, the architectural and agrarian landscapes of the coastal area, the ethnic composition of the population, the system of nature management, the multi-racial economy focused on international trade, and the agrarian specialization within the Ch
