I'lkiv M. The interrelationships of South-Eastern Europe with the Eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium BC.

In the thesis a coherent picture of the relationships of population of South-Eastern Europe with Eastern Mediterranean is reproduced on the basis of the analysis of written, archaeological and linguistic sources. Social and economic backgrounds of contacts and the peculiarities of relationships in economics, connected with import and export, technological adoptions and connections are characterized in it. The relationships of the Eastern Europe tribes with ancient Greece the invasion of the Iranian population from the Northern Black Sea into Aegean region in the last quarter of the II millennium BC and their participation in "sea peoples" invasion called "shardana" are traced in this work.