The medieval town of Trapezitsa in the light of new archaeological research
Category: Second Bulgarian Kingdom
Language: English

   A scientific volume with a catalog dedicated to the new research of the medieval town of Trapezitsa has been published. The first officially excavated site in Bulgaria (back in 1879), the fortress is the second fortified core of the capital of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, Tarnovgrad. After a long break, new research, carried out exclusively by the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, began in 2007 and continues till now, revealing important parts of the fabric of the medieval city between the 13th and 15th centuries AD and its material and spiritual culture. The collection contains a foreword by the directors of NAIM — BAS, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hristo Popov and Acad. Vasil Nikolov, and 9 studies summarizing the results on important issues for medieval Trapezitsa — a comprehensive overview of the research, fortification, street network and dwellings, church architecture and Christian grace, mural decoration of churches, religious and secular complexes, sgraffito ceramics, epigraphic heritage and numismatic material. The research is richly illustrated. The authors are Bulgarian researchers of Trapezitsa and its culture. The publication's merit is the catalog with the most representative 233 finds from 15 years of excavations, showing the diversity of the material and spiritual culture of the Second Bulgarian Tsardom.

Table of contents

Plamen Doychev. History of research of the medieval town of Trapezitsa

Deyan Rabovyanov. The fortification system of the Trapezitsa fortress the second fortified core of the capital of Tarnovgrad

Venko Ivanov, Deyan Rabovyanov. Residential architecture and the street network of the medieval town of Trapezitsa

Konstantin Totev, Diana Koseva. Church architecture and Christian grace in the “Glorious town of Trapezitsa”

Mirko Robov. Religious and lay complexes in the medieval town of Trapezitsa

Stiliyan Ivanov. Sgraffito pottery from the fortress Trapezitsa in the capital Tarnovgrad — ornaments and figural compositions

Georgi Sengalevich. Epigraphic heritage of Trapezitsa — an important source about the written culture of the capital Tarnovo

Stoyan Mihaylov. Trapezitsa’s coin circulation (13th—15th centuries)

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