CrimeaPRESS reports:
Scientists of the Crimean Federal University received a mega-grant to study ethno-cultural transformations in the possessions of the Eastern Roman Empire in Crimea. A research laboratory for the study of Byzantine history will be created at the university under the guidance of a French professor. The megagrant is for three years. The total amount of financing will be 90 million rubles.
Our goal is a comprehensive study of ethnocultural transformations in the possessions of the Eastern Roman Empire in Taurica (Kherson, mountainous Crimea, Bosporus) of the late 4th — early 13th centuries, when the region belonged to Byzantium. Research will be aimed at studying the political history of the formation of possessions, the emergence of cities, the creation of the Byzantine military-administrative district and its evolution. The empire, with varying degrees of success, administered almost all regions of Crimea, with the exception of the steppes , — Alexander Aybabin, director of the Research Center for the History and Archeology of Crimea of the Crimean Federal University, quotes the press service of the university.
According to the expert, special attention will be paid to studying the influence of Byzantine culture on the ethnic processes of the local Goths and Alans, as a result of which a local mountainous Crimean people, the Crimean Greeks, was formed on the peninsula.
Research will be devoted to both cultural and assimilation processes of the development of the Alano-Gothic population and the formation of a new Greek-speaking people on their basis. We will study written sources, conduct archaeological research, and draw on all the archaeological materials that we have obtained over the past eight years of intensive excavations at Mangup-Kale, Eski-Kermen and the Bosporus. Another important direction will be the study of the Gothic language and its displacement by Greek, for which a German specialist from the university will be involved. Previously, comprehensive studies of this scale have not been carried out , — says Alexander Aybabin.
As the project leader notes, the research is interdisciplinary in nature and involves the use of modern methods of archaeological dating (radiocarbon and others). So, for example, studies of the compositions of metals found during excavations will be widely used to determine the regions of production of raw materials and the regions of the empire with which trade was conducted.
In total, 293 applications from regions of Russia were sent to the ninth competition of the mega-grants program. The Grants Council has selected 30 winners. With the allocated grants, world-class laboratories will be created in universities and scientific organizations to conduct current and promising scientific research.
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