Olbia in the Process of Formation of the Pontic Market (the second half of the 5. - the early 4. century BC)
Some issues relating to economic ties of Olbia with Pontic colonial centers in V BC on the basis of historical research, archaeological materials, narrative sources and epigraphic documents are considered. Close political, economic and cultural ties between the Black Sea cities, which had begun at the end of the VI BC, gradually strengthening in V BC. The period of greatest prosperity of trade between the Pontic cities is already in the IV BC. One of the main reasons to expedite these events, of course, was the Peloponnesian War, which, along with the already existing tendency to strengthen ties between the Pontic centers has stepped the process of formation of the Pontic market as an alternative.