TUNA BULGAR KENT MİMARİSİ: PLİSKA (681-893)
URBAN ARCHITECTURE IN THE DANUBE BULGARIA: PLISKA (681-893)

Summary/Abstract: The Great Bulgar Khaganate became a state in the north of the Black Sea in the first half of the 8th century. Its collapse during the second half of the same century, caused the heirs of the Khaganate to migrate to all directions. One such migration began with the aim of finding a new homeland. Therefore, they looked westbound towards the Balkans, under the leadership of Asparuh Kagan. The Bulgars had already been organized along the southern border of the Lower Danube. They had ruled over that geography for two centuries and were the architects behind Bulgaria’s transformation – which had included the tribe union, to the name of the country. Pliska bears distinct traces of the nomadic Turkish culture in the Balkans and was first established as a Bulglar military in the 680s. It eventually became a capital city later on. Archaeologists had pinpointed the probable location of Pliska during excavation work in the 19th century, near the village of Aboba (eastern Bulgaria). Over time, further archaeological digs have revealed that Pliska had architecture, administrative and military buildings, and economic vitality (as a producer of commercial goods, crafts, agricultural tools, and equipment). Bringing Saltovo-Mayaki cultural elements – including ancient beliefs – to the region they migrated to, the Bulgars succeeded in creating an urban culture that included the settled peoples of the Balkans.

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