The Topography of Burial Grounds of Golden Horde Azak and their Impact on the Urban Planning Cover Image

Топография городских могильников золотоордынского Азака и их влияние на общегородскую планировку
The Topography of Burial Grounds of Golden Horde Azak and their Impact on the Urban Planning

Author(s): Andrei Nikolaevich Maslovskiy
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Regional Geography, Middle Ages, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Azak; Golden Horde; cemeteries; topography;planigraphy;
Summary/Abstract: Excavations of Azak are held in every district of the city. That’s why now it is possible to study some questions of planigraphy of big city of the Golden Horde. The paper contains information about 38 discovered burial sites of 13th—14th cc. Short data about these sites origin is also given. Mapping of the objects shows certain logic in their location. Burial sites appear nearly at the same time. Each of two arc-like burial zones appears as a result of an administrative policy, which ordered to place graves outside from the habitable districts. But soon sites of an earlier period became surrounded by residential estates. The second arc-like zone of burials appeared as a result of this process.