Article: Black Sea Steppe

BLACK SEA STEPPE

BLACK SEA STEPPE. The land above the northern coast of the Black Sea, bounded by the Prut River in the west and the Kuban River in the east, was of considerable potential economic and geopolitical value in the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Most of it was steppe land well suited to nomadic pastoralism but also offering abundant, rich black soil (chernozem) for agriculture. The Don and Dnieper rivers had the potential to serve important trade routes, as they had in the distant past, linking the ancient trading towns of the Black Sea coast with the interior of eastern Europe. Hegemony over the Black Sea steppe was also seen as key to determining the ...

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