Nikōnion
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Niconium was an ancient Greek city on the east bank of the Dniester estuary, located near what is currently the village of Roksolana, in the Ovidiopol district of the Odessa region.
History
Niconium was founded around the 5th century BC, a time when many nomadic tribes were beginning to settle in the areas north of the Black Sea.[1] The Greeks settled in this area because of the plentiful fishing and the opportunity to trade with these barbarian settlers.[2]
Stone construction in the city began in the 5th century. At the turn of the 3rd-2nd centuries BCE[citation needed], the city was destroyed, an event which was associated with the Macedonian commander Zopyrion, associate of Alexander the Great. In the 1st century ACE, the size of the city increased from the previous period[citation needed]. It is believed that life in Niconium ended around the time of the Great Migrations[citation needed].
In the 5th-4th centuries BCE, the major money in Niconium were Istrian copper alloy coins. It is thought [citation needed] that Niconium itself produced these coins, dating between the years 470 BCE to 460 BCE. The seemingly haphazard statement attesting to the coins origination dating to the period of the reign of the Scythian king Scylas is confirmed by the fact that the Niconium coins have the name Scylas written on them.
References
- ^ Denis Sinor (1990). The Cambridge history of early Inner Asia. Cambridge University Press. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-521-24304-9. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
- ^ George Long (1866). The decline of the Roman republic. Bell & Daldy. p. 261. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
See also
- Nikonion // North Pontic Archaeology. Colloquia Pontika. – V. 6. – Leiden. Boston. Köln, 2001
- А.Г Загинайло П. О. Карышковский. Монеты cкифского царя Скила [Coins of Scythian King Scylus] // Нумизматические исследования по истории Юго-Восточной Европы: Сборник научых трудов. – Кишинёв: Штиинца, 1990. – С. 3 – 15
- Загинайло А.Г. Литые монеты царя Скила. // Древнее Причерноморье. – Одесса, 1990. – С. 64-71.
- Одесский музей нумизматике. Никоний
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