Some Notes On The Topography Of Eastern Pontos Euxeinos In Late Antiquity And Early Byzantium

Andrei Vinogradov ()
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Abstract: This paper clarifies some issues of late antique and early Byzantine topography of Eastern Pontos Euxeinos. These questions can be divided into two large groups: the ecclesiastical topography and the locations of Byzantine fortresses. The earliest testimony of Apostolic preaching on the Eastern black sea coast—the list of the apostles by Pseudo-Epiphanius—following the ‘Chronicon’ of Hyppolitus of Rome, unsuccessfully connects South-Eastern Pontos Euxeinos to Sebastopolis the Great (modern Sukhumi), which subsequently gives rise to an itinerary of the apostle Andrew. The Early Byzantine Church in the region had a complicated arrangement: the Zekchians, Abasgians and possibly Apsilians had their own bishoprics (later archbishoprics); the Lazicans had a metropolitan in Phasis (and not in their capital Archaeopolis) with five bishop-suffragans. Byzantine fortresses, mentioned in 7th c sources, are located mostly in Apsilia and Missimiania, in the Kodori valley, which had strategic importance as a route from the Black sea to the North Caucasus

Keywords: Caucasus; Byzantium; topography; Church; fortresses (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, December 2014, pages-21

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