ANATOLIAN FAIENCE POTTERY OF XVI–XVIII CENTURIES FROM THE NORTH-EAST PRIAZOVYE IN RUSSIA
Journal: Maǧallaẗ al-biḥūṯ wa Al-Dirasāt al-āṯāriyyaẗ
Year: 2021

In 2014 the archeological expedition of the Azov Museum-Reserve carried out excavations on the territory of the former Turkish fortress Azak in Azov (Rostov region, the Russian Federation). The fortress, along with the other stone fortified structures (the Sed-Islam Fortress and the Shakhi and Sultaniye sentry towers), belonged to the Ottoman system of defensive fortifications in the North-East Priazovye which was part of the Ottoman Empire from the end of the XV century to the first half of the