Mariya R. Mogucheva

Master's studentof the Department of History and Archaeology of the Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University

Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University

(Tula, Russia)

Abstract. The study of the history of any state always affects its economy, which is one of the most important factors of its development. The Bosporan Kingdom was the largest Greek colony in the Northern black sea region. It was located on both sides of the Kerch Strait. This article examines the economic development and varieties of economic complexes of the Bosporan state, their General structure, characteristic features inherent in each described economic entity as well as their role in ensuring both the internal market of the state and external trade relations. Among the important components of economic complexes there are, for example, economic pits and clay barrels-pithos used in agriculture, wine presses used in wineries, fish salting baths the complex of which was located on the shore of the Kerch Strait in the area of the Bosporan city of Tyritake. During the description of the complexes, the article highlights the most significant and major sectors of the economy of the Bosporan state, such as agriculture, viticulture, fishing, craft. The author describes the features of the organization of economic activity in these sectors of the economy, employment in those or other processes, the influence of geographical conditions on the economy, the types of products used by the inhabitants of the Kingdom, and the ones produced for export. In addition to these industries, the article deals with gardening, horticulture and animal husbandry. The author also describes the crisis processes in the economy of Bosporus in late antiquity and their impact on the development of production, addresses the topic of interaction with barbarian States, and provides information about the process of naturalization of the economy of the Bosporan Kingdom, its reorientation to the domestic market.
Keywords: Bosporan Kingdom, Economics, economic development, agriculture, viticulture, fishing, gardening, horticulture, animal husbandry, economic crisis, natural economy

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For citation: Mogucheva, MR 2020, ‘On the typology of economic complexes on the territory of the Bosporan kingdom in the 3rd – 4th centuries AD’, Tula Scientific Bulletin. History. Linguistics, issue 4 (4), pp. 6-13, URL: http://tula-vestnik.ru/pdf/2020/vipusk_4_29_12_20.pdf (in Russ.)

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