Развитие архитектуры античных городов Причерноморья
Development of the architecture of antique cities of the Black Sea Region

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the architectural and historical fates of the most significant Hellenic cities of the Black Sea Region, founded from the XIIth to the end of the VII century BC. In all historical, archaeological, architectural and other sources, the process of colonization of the Black Sea Coast and the fates of the cities of this zone are considered within the borders of those countries to which a particular part of the modern coast belongs. To date, there are six countries with access to the Black Sea (Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia), but in antiquity it was a single area with a single economy (with some specialization in each particular city) and with a single culture. Under the influence of the local population (if there was one), the culture was somewhat transformed (sometimes temporarily), nevertheless remaining common to the entire Black Sea Region. Over the past almost 3.2 thousand years, little has survived from the architecture of that time. The authors tracked the evolution of some ancient Hellenic cities, and also revealed their role in the cultural development of the Black Sea Basin and the impact on the development of culture in the adjacent territories of Eastern Europe and Asia Minor. Literary and archaeological data were compared to ancient historical descriptions, which made it possible to recreate the historical and architectural situation for a number of famous ancient cities of the Black Sea basin.

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