Chernyakhov culture
A prosperous multi-ethnic culture stretching from the lower Danube to the Seversky Donets, linked above all with the Goths and the peoples under their rule, which flourished until the Hunnic invasion.
- Date
- between 200 and 250 – between 400 and 430exact date unknown: an interval is given · duration: ≈ 190 years
- Place
- Cherniakhiv near Kyivtoday: Cherniakhiv, Obukhiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine · Eastern Europe
- Participants
- Goths, Sarmatians
- Threads
- Eastern Europe and Rus’ before the Baptism (1st–10th c.)
- Also known as
- Sântana de Mureș–Chernyakhov culture; Cherniakhiv culture; Культура Сынтана-де-Муреш
Named after a cemetery at Cherniakhiv south of Kyiv (and, in Romania, after Sântana de Mureș), the culture grew out of the Wielbark culture of the Goths under strong Roman provincial influence. Its large villages, wheel-made pottery, glass and Roman imports show close ties with the empire. Soviet scholars long regarded it as Slavic, western scholars as Gothic; today it is usually seen as the material culture of a Gothic-led confederation that also included Sarmatians, Dacians, descendants of the Late Scythians and Slavs.
The culture flourished from the mid-3rd century; its decline began with the Hunnic onslaught of the 370s, and by the early 5th century it had disappeared. The dates are archaeological, and reference works give slightly different bounds (2nd–5th or mid-3rd to early 5th century).
Connections
Causes and preconditions
- The Goths settle in Oiumc. 180 – c. 230 · Eastern Europe
Related events
- The Huns conquer the Alans and the Greuthungic. 370 – 376 · Eastern Europethe invasion put an end to the Chernyakhov culture
Same participants
- Roman–Bosporan War45–49 · Eastern Europevia Sarmatians
- Kyiv culturec. 200 – between 400 and 430 · Eastern Europevia Goths
Meanwhile in the world
Other regions, within a year of this event
Western and Central Europe
- Edict of MilanFebruary 313
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge28 October 312
- Establishment of the Tetrarchy1 March 293
- Aurelian Walls271–275
- Crisis of the Third CenturyMarch 235 – 20 November 284
+ 5 events
Balkans and Anatolia
- First Council of Nicaeabetween May and June 325 – between July and August 325
- Founding of Constantinople11 May 330
- Great Persecution24 February 303 – 313
- Battle of Adrianople9 August 378
- Gothic War (376–382)376 – 3 October 382
+ 2 events
Africa
- Vandal conquest of Roman AfricaMay 429 – 442
The same period
Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Chernyakhov culture
- Wikipedia (Russian): Черняховская культура
- Щукин М. Б. Готский путь (готы, Рим и черняховская культура). — СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ, 2005.
- Heather P. The Goths. — Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
- Wikidata: Q1474345