Suprenkov А. A.

Key words: Phocean colonization, Greek Massalia, Greek and Barbarian communities, polis and chora.
The article concerns the history and archaeology of Massalia, the biggest Phocean colony on the north-west Mediterranean. The subject of the studies is the village territory of the city from the foundation to the beginning of the Punic wars as of in the context of the relations between Greek and Barbarian communities.