2024/4(39)
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Role of cultural heritage sites
and tourism as a factor
of cultural sovereignty
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The creation and functioning
of the penitentiary system in the Kaliningrad region in 1945–1949
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Realization of the cultural and educational potential of cultural policy within the framework
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Defining the structure and boundaries of the Outstanding Universal Value of an urban heritage site (the example of Saint Petersburg)
Family and genus in the historical and cultural heritage of the region
Research of paintings by Danish marine artists Carl and Wilhelm Bille by the Scientific Expertise Department of GOSNIIR
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Main results of the expedition
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the Severny Island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in 2024
Third cycle of UNESCO periodic reporting in the Russian Federation: reflection on the experience
On the problem of discovering and collecting archaeological objects
Heritage Preservation Problems
Issues of social cooperation in the digital preservation of the cultural heritage
Museology
Echo of the Crimean War: souvenirs “Memory of Sevastopol” in the collection of The Nizhniy Novgorod State Reserve Museum of History and Architecture
Russian Foreign Heritage
Indian Ocean. Russian geographical names as objects of intangible cultural heritage
Obituaries of the magazine
“The Chasovoy” (1929–1988) –
a reflection of the history of White emigration
Scientific Chronicle
Valery Nikolaevich Rastorguev
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Publ. 12/11/2024
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UDC 904
Volkov I.
Verifying location of Italian trade station of Copa in the medieval town
of Temryuk (Copario – Lo Coppa) (Part 1)
Abstract. The paper attempts to locate the Genovese trading station of Copa, constantly mentioned in the European written sources of 13th-14th cc. Copa was obviously situated at the Azov Sea coast nearby the Kuban river mouth that was indicated under the same name. Medieval portolano-maps approximate location of the main bed of the Kuban river during 13th-15th cc. at the contemporary estuary of the Kurka river. This fact negates proposition to locate this site in the modern town of Slavyansk-na-Kubani or at the Kiziltash estuary that was the principal estuary of Kuban river during 17th-19th cc. Not far from the Kurchansk estuary only two settlements with the corresponding cultural layers are found, namely Golubitzkaya-1 and Temruk-1. Both settlements had been had situated nearby the Kuban river distributaries flowing into the Azov Sea up to 19th c.
There is written source of the Russian provenance directly indicating that the fortress of Temryuk (known as castle of Adas as well) was built in Copa. The field collections of pottery on the site of Temryuk-1 by Ya.M. Paromov point to the fact that it was inhabited no later than 13th c. and was occupied until 18th c. So, location of Copa on the site of Temruk-1 (45º17’50’’ N, 37º20’08’’ E) is to be finally accepted. The place name of Copario used in “Statute of Caffa. 1449” presumably corresponds to the whole coastal area of the Kuban river delta under control of town of Coppa, but limited by the Akhtarsk estuary from the north.
Key words: Copa, Copario, portolano-maps, “Statute of Caffa. 1449”, the Golden Horde, Genovese trading stations, Temryuk, Golubitzkaya, Kuban river, the Azov Sea, Adas.
Volkov Igor Viktorovich,
PhD in History,
Leading Researcher, D.Likhachev’s Russian
Scientific Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage (Moscow)
Published: The Heritage Institute Journal, 2015/2
URL: http://nasledie-journal.ru/en/journals/33.html
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