Варвари или ромеи? К вопросу о роли варварского компонента в этни- ческом составе населения раннесредневекового Херсонеса–Херсона

Abstract

The article examines the role of the barbaric component in the formation of urban ethnic substrate in the 4^th – 10^th centuries. The Time of Great Migration added new components to the ethnic mosaic of Chersonesus-Cherson. The residents of the city, united by a new faith, common Roman culture and language, were able to rally to a new multi-ethnic monolith, an understandable for themselves but still strange and unusual for metropolitan intellectuals