Нови археологически данни за предградието на крепостта Калиакра
New archaeological data about the suburb of Kaliakra fortress

Summary/Abstract: Recent studies of Kaliakra fortress let us do some basic conclusions: Large areas of the suburb of cape that covers the space between the second and third walls of Kaliakra in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages were used for cemeteries. This tradition was kept also by various pagan invaders who resided or passed through today’s northwestern Bulgarian territories. This was proved by tombs oriented north-south, which date from the 5th–6th centuries and in which were not buried Christians. In the 9th and 10th centuries the fortress changed its appearance. It is gradually absorbed by the Bulgarians as defensive line turned to the sea, and traces of life are found inland. Dobrotitsa coins, jewelry, crosses, enkolpia and beautiful elite ceramics give reason to rethink the functions of suburb which was inhabited by aristocrats, wealthy merchants and prelates. Evidence, written and archaeological, for active economic relations between Dobrudzha despot kingdom and Venice, and the fact that Dobrotitsa had his own mint Kaliakra testify to the flourishing medieval town in the 13th–14th centuries.

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