Les Goths sur la côte sud de la Crimée du iv e au viii e siècle et les fouilles récentes à Gorzouvites. Présentation générale
Journal: Brepols eBooks
Year: 2025

The most ancient Germanic findings on the southern coast of Crimea are dated back to the late Roman period (the necropoleis of Ay-Todor and Chatyr-Dag). However, the Goths are attested by written sources only from the sixth century. We know that, at the time of Justinian, these Goths were allied with the Eastern Roman Empire and were Orthodox Christians. We know, thanks to Procopius of Caesarea, that the empire erected two fortresses on the coast, as strongholds of Byzantine power: this same Gor