Historical science in the USSR. Reviews by Yu. K. KOLOSOVSKAYA. PANNONIA IN THE I-III CENTURIES
Author: A.M. Remennikov
Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 1973, 256 pages. The print run is 1200. Price 1 rub. 34 kopecks.
In the post-war period, the Roman Danube provinces became an object of study for Soviet scientists .1 Some attention was also paid to Pannonia. However, the history of this largest Roman province on the Danube still lacked monographic works. Meanwhile, the Roman past of Pannonia is also an ancient period of the ancient history of Hungary. Based on a thorough and thorough analysis of a complex of sources (epigraphic materials, testimonies of ancient authors, data from archeology and numismatics), a senior researcher at the Institute of General History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences Yu. K. Kolosovskaya covered the history of Pannonia during the Principate era. It analyzes slave-owning relations in Pannonia, the development of the urban system here, the structure of land ownership, social and cultural life in cities. The author also examines the problem of the Roman conquest of Pannonia, characterizes its relations with neighboring tribes.
The peculiarity of the development of the Roman provinces was that there was a synthesis of Roman and local socio - economic institutions. Therefore, Y. K. Kolosovskaya specifically stops at
1 See T. D. Zlatkovskaya. Moesia in the 1st and 2nd centuries of our era. Moscow, 1951; I. T. Kruglikova. Dacia in the era of Roman Occupation, Moscow, 1955.
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characteristics of Pannonia before its conquest by Rome. It explores the ethnic composition of this region, showing the location of the Celtic and Illyrian tribes that then inhabited the Pannonian plains. An analysis of social relations in Pannonia on the eve of the Roman conquest leads her to the conclusion that the local population was experiencing an era of decomposition of the primitive communal system. But while the Celts were at a ...
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