Alans and Germans in the Bosporan Kingdom in the second half of the 3rd century

Abstract

According to antique authors, Alans from 1st century AD were neighbors of Asian part of the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus and wandered between the lower current of the Volga and Don rivers, and also in northern and east coast of the Azov Sea, up to an average watercourse Kuban river. Alans, living in lower reaches of the Tanais river called Tanaits. In 255 borani took in the city of Bosporus the ships with crews were transported through the strait and attacked Pityus. The garrison of the city reflected attack. In a year in 256 Germans seized the ships in the city of Bosporus again and made raid, already more successful, on the Roman cities in East Black Sea Coast: Phasis, Pityus, Trebizond and adjacent area. In the last year emperor Gallienus rule (268) the biggest sea campaign of Germans began with Meotida coast. From Meotida Germans on a set of vessels went to assembly point to the mouth of the Dniester river, from where broke through the passage Bosporus strait in Sea Marmara and to the Aegean Sea. In 276 from Meotida Goths attacked provinces of Asia Minor again. The emperor Tacitus crushed is ready. The same year the tsar of the Bosporan Kingdom Teyran defeat the Goths. After Teyran’s victory over Goths on the Crimean peninsula the quiet period began.

Keywords

• римская империя, аланы, германцы, бораны, готы, боспорское царство, танаис, питиунт, малая азия