Pages: 479-508

The scope of this article is to give a short characteristic to the sites of sedentary (Slavic, Alan, Bulgar) and nomad (Turk) population from the Lower Dnieper region, poorly presented in the literature. The sites include hillforts, settlements, ground and barrow necropolises, coin hoards and various individual finds. All these materials are presented according to a certain structure: cartography, dating, history of research, short description of main complexes and categories of finds. This analysis will allow the specialists to produce in the future a much more comprehensive picture of ethnocultural processes and dimensions of urban construction in the Lower Dnieper region, as well as to ascertain the reasons behind the selection of this territory as administrative and political centre of Mamai Horde.

Keywords: Lower Dnieper region, Golden Horde period, nomadic population, sedentary population, urban centres, Mamai Horde

Information about author:

Mikhail Elnikov (Zaporizhzhe, Ukraine). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Zaporizhzhya National University. Zhukovsky St., 66, Zaporizhzhya, 69063, Ukraine
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