title: Contemporary State of Research, Goals and Preliminary Conclusions Regarding the Architecture of Medieval Crimea
abstract: This paper looks into the present-day stage of studies on Crimean Medieval architecture, focusing on their specific features and defining the objects for future work, which is expected to place them within a broader context, in close connection with other historical research dedicated to Mediterranean, Eastern European and Black Sea region art. The limited scope of themes covered by previous works on the subject, which were conducted mainly by archaeologists, were not closely connected with thos