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This article presents all available historical information and research related to the ruins on Peninsula Foros. The data analysed is from medieval maps, travelogues and Ottoman sources, which mention Poros / Poro / Foros. Presented are also the results of the archaeological excavations on the peninsula in 2008, 2009, 2013 and 2014; they provide evidence that Foros was inhabited as early as the 1st millennium BC. At the end of the 2nd-3rd c. AD at least two Roman villas and a port functioned on the peninsula. The most dynamic life here was in the 5th-6th c. AD. During this period, the whole west coast of the peninsula was a built-up area. A large early Christian church, probably bishop, was erected at the base of Cape Foros. In the 6th century a fortress wall with the length of 283 m fenced off the peninsula. 4 towers, which were spaced just 54 m apart, guarded the front of the wall. At the very beginning of the 7th c. AD and probably at the beginning of its second decade, the local population left Foros without any trace of military activities or natural disaster. Later, in the 11th-13th c., the place was a major medieval village, from which two necropolis were discovered by the archaeologists. In the 13th-14th century, at the flow of Mandra Lake, near locality Poda, a second medieval village developed. It was situated east of the thick tower, which was surveyed in 2009. The tower was first constructed in the late antiquity and rebuilt and used in the 14th-15th century.
Comprehensive listing and description with illustrations of every archaeological investigation which took place in 2009 in Bulgaria (in BULGARIAN). Presented by period and area.
The problem about the localization of the mentioned ύπέρφυμον ΰκον ίς τόν Δανούβην – Glorious home on the Danube in an inscription on a column of Chan Omurtag (814-831) in the Holy Forty Martyrs Church in Veliko Tarnovo is still discussed. Where exactly on the Danubian bank was built that new “home” (residence) of the Chan? The inscription says that it was situated 40 000 orgies (84 km) from the old palace of the Chan (most probably Pliska). In fact, this means that it could be located on the 80 – kilometers long riverside from Tutrakan – Malak Preslavec to Silistra – Pacuiul lui Soare (Fig.1). Initially it was supposed to be in the fort near the village of Malak Preslavets. First Professor V. Beshevliev, relying on the several inscriptions of Chan Omurtag from Silistra, suggested that the Glorious home on the Danube could be in Drastar. However he did not reject the possibility that it might be located in Pacoiul lui Soare. New evidences in favor of his opinion were found after more than forty years of archaeological studies of medieval Drastar. Reconstructions of the fortification, a representative building (palace) with a bathhouse next to it and a pagan temple, dating back to the early 9th c., were discovered. On the basis of the documentation from the excavations, kept in the Archaeological Museum - Silistra /Fig. 9-10/, here we present new information about the palace building, partially excavated in 1972 along the inner face of the northern fortification wall of Drastar. We also present a new reconstruction of its plan /Fig. 6, 11/. It finds close parallels in the representative architecture of Pliska, Preslav and the aul near the village of Khan Krum. Its plan is very similar to the one of the so-called "Archbishop's residence” at Preslav for which we have data that was built in the pagan period. The palace building in Preslav had four corner towers. Similar towers probably had the building in Drastar - an archaic feature with roots in the so-called Krum’s palace in Pliska and further back in the Arab architecture and the ancient quadriburgia.
Annual report by lead investigators of every archaeological excavation that took place in Bulgaria during 2015 according to period. Abstracts of each site in English.
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