title: Ancient Derbent in the History of the Early Christian World
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metadata.value: Kudryavtsev, Alexander A.
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metadata.value: 2022-12-15T17:21:21Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-12-15T17:21:21Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Kudryavtsev A. A. Ancient Derbent in the History of the Early Christian World. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 3, рp. 910–929. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.314 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.314
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38701
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metadata.value: Derbent has gone down in history as an outstanding monument of world fortification erected
  in the 5th–7th centuries AD to protect against the invasions of nomads of Eurasia. Extensive archaeological research of Derbent, under the guidance of the author, revealed completely
  new stages of the city’s existence, and Derbent emerged not only as the main military and
  political stronghold of the world powers of the medieval East in the Caucasus but also as the
  largest economic and religious center of the region, where Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism,
  and Judaism penetrated and developed early. Derbent acquired a special significance in the
  history of the Christian world of the Caucasus during the reign of the Sasanian kings Yezdegerd
  II (439–457) and Peroz (459–484), ardent opponents of Christianity, when the struggle
  of the peoples of the Caucasus with the “teaching of magicians” severely aggravated. The Derbent
  fortifications began to play an important role in the anti-Iranian uprisings of the Caucasian
  rulers who relied on the nomads and mountaineers of the North Caucasus in their fight
  against the Sasanians. It was in the 60s of the 5th centuries, as our excavations have shown, that
  a cruciform temple was erected in the citadel of Derbent, which was transformed at the beginning
  of the 17th century into a reservoir. The most recent geophysical research, conducted
  in 2020, using georadar and laser scanning and photogrammetry confirmed the data obtained
  during the excavations about the religious purpose of the cross-domed structure in the citadel
  and its identification with the Christian temple of the 5th century, one of the oldest in Russia.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Derbent
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christianity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Zoroastrianism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Albans
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sasanians
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nomads
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: uprisings
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religious center
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: temple
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: archaeological excavations
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Ancient Derbent in the History of the Early Christian World
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metadata.value: Article
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