CERAMICS AND CERAMIC PRODUCTION OF MEDIEVAL BILHOROD, HISTORY OF RESEARCH, PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES
Journal: Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine
Year: 2022

The 120-year history of the study of medieval ceramics from Bilhorod (other names Akja-Kermen, Asprokastron, Maurokastro, Moncastro, Mokastro) — one of the largest trade centres of the North-Western Black Sea coast in the late Byzantine and Ottoman Ages is analysed in the paper. The site is located in the modern city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odessa region, Ukraine. This urban center was formed on the ruins of ancient Tyras in the late 13th — early 14th centuries. There are two stages in its his