Dzukalai: a Medieval Settlement on the Kerch Peninsula
Journal: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
Year: 2016

The author localized Dzukalai – a medieval settlement on the Kerch Peninsula – on the territory of modern Zolotoe village. This settlement was a Genoese hold in the Black Sea region – the so called Genoese Gazaria, and was part of the rural environs of Vosporo – the only large Genoese city on the Kerch Peninsula. The settlement was localized with the help of portolans, i.e. medieval sea charts. The archaeological research in 2010 established the time span of this locality as the second half of t