On the Question of the Legal Status of Mountainous Southwestern Taurika in the 6th — First Half of the 9th Century
Journal: Istoriya
Year: 2024

Issue of the legal status (state affiliation) of the mountainous Southwest Crimea is important for better understanding of political, ethnic and religious development of the region in early Middle Ages. The entire set of sources is evidence of its being controlled by the Byzantine Empire. But the issue of the exercise of power by the Romans, its form, as well as the period when the territory began its existence as “interior” part of Byzantine is still a matter of dispute. There are two chronolog