«Migration of Goths to the North Pontic Area» (p. 222). In the last decades of the 2nd century A.D. a movement of a great mass of population from the Lower Vistula region to¬wards south under the leadership of Goths took place. The most part of it settled in Mazovja, Podlasie and Volyn’ (Wielbark culture),, but a part moved further — to the western part of North Pontic Area, where the basis of future Gothia was laid. The second wave of migrants under the leadership of Goths dates back to the middle of the 3rd century. Some large groups of the migrants settled at those times between Dniester and Lower Dnieper, and some little ones — widely within the Chenn- akhov territory.
«Slavs in the Cherniakhov Culture. Forma-tion of Ants» (p. 233) Cherniakhov culture (late 2nd — early 5th centuries A.D.) was a polyethnic conglomeration. The most part of its population were Sarmatians, that settled widely between Lower Danube and Meothida (the Sea of Azov), and Slavs. In the Dniester- Danube region also Gets-Daks and Goths- Gepids tribes lived, belonging to this culture. The formation of Cherniakhov culture was a result of ioteraction of the South-Eastern Prze¬worsk tribes with Sarmatians. Some uniformity of Chemiakhov territory was conditioned by spreading of Roman Provincial Culture. In the region of Podolia and Middle Dnieper a new dialect-tribal formatiqn Ants — was gene¬rated under the circumstances of Slavic-Iranian symbiosis.
«Slavs during the Mig’ration Period» (p. 287). The migration of Germanian tribes towards the borders of Roman Empire and the Huns invasion in late 4th century A.D. changed the cultural situation in South-Eastern Europe con-siderably. The development of Provincial Ro¬man cultures» had been interrupted, the majo¬rity of crafts centres stopped functioning, the period of cultural regress began, and it was strengthened by the unfavourable conditions for the agriculture. A part of Slavic population was forced to leave the Przeworsk and Cherniakhov territories and to move to the other lands.
During the 5th century, as the stabilization of life had begun, the process of formation of the early medieval Slavic cultures took place: Prague-Korchak culture on the basis of Przeworsk remains; Pen’kovka culture on the basis of Podolia-Dnieper variant of Cherniakhov cul¬ture with the participation of northern immi¬grants (the population of Kiev culture); the culture of Pskov Long Barrows; Imen’kovo culture and some other small ones.
Translated by N. Lopatin
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