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ANGLO-SAXONS AT THE BLACK SEA
ANGLO-SAXONS AT THE BLACK SEA

Author(s): Răzvan Theodorescu
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Universitatea Hyperion
Keywords: bizantinology; Black Sea

Summary/Abstract: The anonymous author of the Chronicon Laudunense describes their itinerary on the sea with 235 ships, from British to Spanish and North-African coasts. It is possible that these Anglo-Saxon to have reached the Black Sea, in a region conquered at that time by “pagans”, once in Byzantines possession. Also, in the center and northern Dobrogea, at Murfatlar and Garvan, also in southern Moldavia is keeping, from the same age, testimonials of some cultural presences, called “Viking” and attributed to Varego-Byzantines relations from the year 1000.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 45-47
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: English
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