ARMAMENT OF THE POPULATION OF SOUTH-WESTERN BOLGARIA (10TH - MID-13TH CENTURIES)

Authors

  • Gennadiy N. Belorybkin Penza State University, Krasnaya St. 40, Penza, 440026, Russian Federation
  • Vladimir A. Gusynin Tsera Research and Production Center LLC, Uritsky St., 62, offi ce 2027, Penza, 440000, Russian Federation
  • Iskander L. Izmaylov Institute of Archaeology named after A.Kh. Khalikov, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. Butlerov St., 30, Kazan, 420012, the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation
  • Vladimir A. Vinnichek
  • Airat M. Gubaidullin Institute of Archaeology named after A. Kh. Khalikov, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. Butlerov Str., 30, Kazan, 420012, the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation
  • Galina Yu. Ofman State Budget Educational Institution School No. 315 of Moscow, Central Administrative District, Department of Education and Science of Moscow (Moscow, Russian Federation)
  • Elena V. Ponomarenko Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Sergey V. Ponomarenko National Wildlife Research Center, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  • Pavel I. Safronov Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117036, Russian Federation
  • Vladislav V. Yankov Penza Branch of the Russian Geographical Society (Penza, Russian Federation)

Keywords:

archaeology, south-western Bolgaria, Sura, Moksha regions, Middle Ages, armament, Zolotarevskoe settlement

Abstract

The territory of the Sura and Moksha regions in the 10th-13th centuries was part of the state of Volga Bolgaria, although the borderline position of the region and certain features of its cultural and linguistic environment, as well as the proximity to the world of nomadic steppes and the involvement in the militarydiplomatic struggle of the Finno-Ugric neighbors with Russian principalities, to a certain extent differentiated it from the general Bolgar context of armament and military equipment. The special military-political situation and direct participation in the military events associated with the Mongol campaigns in Eastern Europe determined the originality of the military affairs of these territories. The monuments of the Upper Sura and Moksha regions feature an unprecedented amount of various weapons of the 11th - 13th centuries, the largest number of which is concentrated on one single monument - Zolotarevskoe settlement, which is associated with the role that it played in the history of the region, Volga Bolgaria and Eastern Europe. It was here that the decisive battle was fought, which ended a Mongol campaign against the Volga Bolgars and the Finno-Ugric peoples of the Middle Volga region. The traces of this battle provide science with plenty of information about the state of military affairs of both the Bolgars and the Mongol army.

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Belorybkin, G. N., Gusynin, V. A., Izmaylov, I. L., Vinnichek, V. A. ., Gubaidullin, A. M., Ofman, G. Y., Ponomarenko, E. V., Ponomarenko, S. V., Safronov, P. I., & Yankov, V. V. (2020). ARMAMENT OF THE POPULATION OF SOUTH-WESTERN BOLGARIA (10TH - MID-13TH CENTURIES). Arkheologiia Evraziiskikh Stepei (Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppes), (1), 5–306. Retrieved from https://evrazstep.ru/index.php/aes/article/view/96

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