Ancient Settlement Saved from Black Archaeologists Raids
Article published from StandartNews on 2008-08-10 13:20:00Category: Culture in Dragoynovo
Archaeologists and students saved an ancient settlement dating back from the Iron Age in Hassarya locality near Dragoynovo village from black archaeologists. The first finds show that 32 centuries ago the region was inhabited.
In the archaeological layers can be found traces of Thracian, Roman, Byzantine and Bulgarian culture. In the early Middle Ages the village was a fortress like the ones in the old Bulgarian capitals of Pliska and Preslav.
For the first time in the surroundings of the village archaelogists found evidence proving the existence of a culture where Byzantines and Bulgarians were living together peacefully. The new discovery tips the balance in favour of the theory that the border between the First Bulgarian Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire was on the northern slopes of the Rhodope Mountains instead on the Stara Planina range as scientists believed, commented head of the expedition Assoc. Prof. Ivan Djambazov from "Paisiy Hilendarski"
In the archaeological layers can be found traces of Thracian, Roman, Byzantine and Bulgarian culture. In the early Middle Ages the village was a fortress like the ones in the old Bulgarian capitals of Pliska and Preslav.
For the first time in the surroundings of the village archaelogists found evidence proving the existence of a culture where Byzantines and Bulgarians were living together peacefully. The new discovery tips the balance in favour of the theory that the border between the First Bulgarian Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire was on the northern slopes of the Rhodope Mountains instead on the Stara Planina range as scientists believed, commented head of the expedition Assoc. Prof. Ivan Djambazov from "Paisiy Hilendarski"
