Our research showed that in IV^th century AD the south of Eastern Europe was occupied by the vast Ostrogothic kingdom, which found its archaeological equivalent in the classic Chernyakhov culture. It cannot be defined by traditional categories used in Soviet historical studies, such as ‘alliance of tribes’, ‘federation, etc. The best name for that is an authentic ‘kingdom’ (regnum). By the end of Ermanaric’s reign it overgrew the scale of a ‘super-complex chiefdom’ and was becoming an early state’ demonstrating the development of exopdïitary system of exploitation focused on conquered ethnic groups and resources of remote areas (Jordanes’ ‘northern peoples’). Probably, if the development of Ostrogothic kingdom had not been forcibly interrupted by Huns, it would have transformed into a really mature state. But due to tragic events of 375—376 AD the polyethnic Ermanaric’s regnum remained somewhere at the edge of civilization and the earliest stage of statehood. But memory about that was preserved for centuries in early medieval Germanic sagas praising the image of tyrannical king Ermanaric/Heiðrek/Jormunrekk.

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Ирина Владимировна Зиньковская

Готланд Эрманариха: остроготы в Восточной Европе на рубеже Древности и Средневековья

Макет и оформление Ю.В. Балабанов

Издательский редактор И.В. Румянцева

Корректор Н.С. Головин

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