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With archaeological studies of the Anapa
area, the territory of the historical Syndika, it
was established that the first contacts of the Greek world with the local
population date back to the late seventh—early sixth centuries BCE. The active
development of the coast of Syndika
by the Greeks begun in the second half of the sixth century BCE, when there
are here the Alekseevskoe and Anapskoye
settlements. The Anapa settlement soon
became a significant center. Probably it is this colony
that was known to ancient authors as Syndica
or the Syndician harbour.
Traces of destruction and fires of the late sixth and fifth centuries BCE,
discovered with archaeological excavations, indicate the unstable situation
in Syndica before its inclusion into the Bosporus
state and the emergence of the Bosporan polis
of Gorgippia in the place of the Syndician harbour. The
materials of the necropolis of the Anapa settlement
and sparse epigraphic monuments testify to the ethnic heterogeneity of its
population that included people from Greek centers and representatives of
barbarian peoples.
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Key words: Greek colonization, Bosporus,
Syndika, Gorgippia, archaeology,
epigraphy, settlement, necropolis, the Greeks, the Scythians, the Synds.
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