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Comprehensive listing and description with illustrations of every archaeological investigation which took place in 2009 in Bulgaria (in BULGARIAN). Presented by period and area.
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.
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.
The present dissertation focuses on the peak sanctuaries in Southern Thrace. The introduction reviews the geographical characteristics, political and socioeconomic features of south Thracian regions. In the first chapter a methodology for determining the ritual significance of peak sanctuaries is laid down. It is based on ascertaining the so called distinctive and non-distinctive criteria for identifying a site as a place of worship. In the second chapter written records for the peak sanctuaries in South Thrace are examined. They are differentiated into several groups depending on whether they relate directly to the peak sanctuaries, or provide information about other aspects regarding the socio-political, economic, geographical or other characteristics of the issue. Third chapter points out the archeological data of peak sanctuaries in South Thrace. At the beginning of third chapter the history and current state of the places of worship in South Thrace subject to examination are discussed. Further on in the same chapter the methods of archaeological research of peak sanctuaries in the mountains of South Thrace are presented as well as the methodology for identifying a site as a ritual one or a place of worship. This methodology is based on developing clear and systematic criteria, which are provisionally divided into two types - distinctive and non-distinctive. The last (fourth) chapter of the dissertation is devoted to the ritualism in peak sanctuaries in the region subject to examination. Two sanctuary types in Thracian mountains are differentiated according to social, economic, ethnic or other principles. The role of folklore references is examined as well, that contributes to the clarification of the ritual practices in peak sanctuaries in South Thrace.
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.
The Thessaloniki - Sofia project “A comparative study on architectural monuments in the epochs of Antiquity and Middle Ages” combines theory and practice. It has been designed for training students in architecture who have to study the subjects on “reservation on architectural heritage” or do the master’s degree in the same field. The presented text encompasses three parts – theory, methods and methodology and illustrations of practice. The project is piloting for the University of Structural Engineering and Architecture (VSU “Luben Karavelov - Sofia”). The theoretical model represents an historical discourse in which the concrete subjects are situated. The basic principles upon approaching the historical material are formulated in it. The links between the epochs their confluence the uneven processes and the causal relations between them have been considered and the material in the epoch located. The importance of the towns of Thessaloniki and Sofia has been situated at the background of the epoch. Also their strategic location on important routs connecting West and East has been discussed. The architectural monuments dating back to the times of Gallerius (and Konstantin the Grate) in Sofia are rotunda “St. George”, the palace complex, the Bulevterion, the Amphitheatre and mausoleum which in its time was outside the heart of the town limits. They have compared in urbanistic respect and us typology with the rotunda/mausoleum, the arch and palace of Gallerius in Thessaloniki. The “St. Dimitrius” basilica in Thessaloniki and “St. Sophia” in Sofia as well the rotundas of “St. George” are treated in a comparative projection. The methods thus worked out based on the common principles of the preservation of the immovable heritage and include field investigations, documentation (in text, graphics and photo documentation), semiotic analysis, typological analysis (synchronous and diachronic), methods and ways of exhibiting have been discussed as well as the signing of the restored and conserved structures, the methods and general and concrete principles of restoration of architectural monuments – graphic and 3D restorations, their positioning in the completed reproduction of the monuments on the field and its principles. The methodology used for teaching students prior to their specialized training on preservation of the cultural heritage is quite specific and is structured on the empirical experience of the leading experts in the field of preservation of the moveable and immovable cultural heritage and museology
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