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Ukraine's Ancient Greek City

The Ancients

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The Decline of the Classical Schithian Period

Albier is on the verge of collapse from Dacian tribes coming in and they sack the city. But within 100 years, it reappears. Albier has refounded, and it's refounded not by Greeks, but by Skitians. So we've got a piece together. What happened to those 200 years? Can't really say,. but enough has gone wrong that the city can now be sacked by sort of local groups moving in. Something that Albier had resisted for centuries, it now couldn't resist. The problem is, as I said, there is no real written account of Albier.

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