Settled "Barbarians" of the North-Western Crimea. Dzhangul ethno-cultural group
Until recently, the opinion was dominated that the Greeks in the late Classical and early Hellenistic times arrived to the Northwestern Crimea on vacant land, where Scythians appeared only from time to time. Detection in 2007-2017 of a whole class of settlements of local tribes, existed at the same time as Greek ones, is changed this opinion firmly and radically changed the view on the character of the Greek colonization of the Northwestern Taurida.