[gothic-l] Re: Christianisation of Crimean Goths

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

--- In gothic-l at y..., andreas.schwarcz at u... wrote:
> Dear Dirk;
> Here is my reference:
> 
> {HYPERLINK 
"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/SCAN-ACC-X/0608774
4"}Gomolka-Fuchs, Gudrun [Hrsg.] {HYPERLINK 
"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/SCAN-ACC-X/0090610
7"}1.Körperschaft 
> {HYPERLINK 
"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/FIND-ACC/00906107"
}Deutsches Archäologisches Institut <Berlin> / Römisch-Germanische 
> Kommission {HYPERLINK 
"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/SCAN-ACC-X/0608774
5"}Die Sîntana de Mures-Cernjachov-Kultur. Akten des 
> internationalen Kolloquiums in Caputh vom 20. bis 24. Oktober 1995. 
> Römisch-Germanische Kommission, Eurasien-Abteilung. Hrsg. von 
> Gudrun Gomolka-Fuchs.  Bonn {HYPERLINK 
"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/SCAN-ACC-X/0013321
7"}Verlag {HYPERLINK 
"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/FIND-ACC/00133217"
}Habelt Jahr 1999,
> 
> especially the article of Karl von der Lohe on the Crimea. Alexandr 
> Aibabin and a lot of other archeologists from Russia, Moldavia and 
> Ucraina were also there and agreed with von der Lohe on the subject. 
I 
> was there, too, and discussed the theme with them.
> If Aibabin published anything disagreeing with the results of this 
> conference, I should like to have the reference.
> Kind regards,
>         Andreas 



Hello Andreas,

I had now the chance to go through Aleksandr Aibabin's book "The 
Ethnic History of the Early Byzantine Crimea", 1999 (Etnicheskaya 
istoria rannevizantiskogo krima). As was indicated earlier by other 
writings of Aibabin and others, he definitely argues that Germanic 
people settled on the Crimean peninsula as early as from the middle of 
the 3rd century. He does not even seem to regard this as 
controversial. 

Aibabin makes the same argument in the following book which I also got 
at the British Library:

Archeologie de la mer Noire. la Crime aepoque des Grandes             
Invasions IVe-VIIIe siecles. Conseil regional de Basse-                
Normandie, 30 mai-1er septembre 1997. 
 

His argument is based on archaeological evidence from a number of 
cemetaries, which contain 'Germanic cremation burrials' - as listed 
earlier. Aibabin points out that a first wave of Alans settled in 
central Crimea in the 240s, in the 250s Goths and Borani followed, and 
settled mainly in the southern  regions of the Crimean and the Kerch 
peninsula. Some cemetaries like Chernaya reka shows that 
Goths/Germanic people and Alans sometimes lived closely together.

cheers,

Dirk









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> Institut fuer oesterreichische Geschichtsforschung
> Universitaet Wien
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