NOMADIC PEOPLES OF THE BLACK SEA STEPPES - FROM KIMMERIANS TO POLOVTSY. OUTLINE OF THE POLITICAL RELATIONS

• Authors: Paron Aleksander
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article concerns a problem of presence of nomadic groups in the South Eastern Europe, with a special regard to Black Sea Steppes. The author made a review of nomadic political organisations which domianted on this area from the beginning of the 1st millennium BC till the first half of 13th century AD, i.e. till the Mongol conquest. Majority of the created during this vast space of time political organism had shape of the so-called early state. Their existence depanded on the surplus, gained thanks to the contacts with the outside world (trade, plundering, tributes, conquest of the sedentary population). In this situation any more significant politicial disturbance could cause the decline of nomadic state and the return to the stateless organisation. The main reason of the political changes were the migrations of the new ethnoses.

Keywords

EN

ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES; BLACK SEA STEPPES; NOMADS; POLITICAL RELATIONS

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 61
• Pages: 97-145
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Paron Aleksander

• Aleksander Paron, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN, Oddzial Wroclaw, ul. Wiezienna 6, 50-118 Wroclaw, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA07423