The Trade Route from the Black Sea to the Oka Area from the Late Fourth to Seventh Centuries
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2022

This article suggests a reconstruction of the late fourth- to seventh-century trade route connecting the Northern Black Sea Area and the Oka River basin. The starting and ending points of the route and the location of the support bases have been determined. These bases were trade and industrial centres where mixed population lived and direct contacts of immigrants from the south of Eastern Europe (Crimea, Caucasus, and Black Sea area) and the north (Oka river area) were documented. In the late f