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  • Into the Tsar's residence: geophysical survey of the early medieval Bulgarian capital of Veliki Preslav

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  • Peter Milo, Petar Dimitrov, Mariya Manolova-Voykova, Tomáš Tencer, Beáta Milová, Michal Vágner
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    Antiquity / Volume 97 / Issue 391 / February 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 February 2023, pp. 176-193
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    February 2023
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  • During the late first millennium AD, the Bulgarian Empire emerged in the eastern Balkans on the doorstep of the Byzantine Empire. In a bid to reconcile with—and impress—its powerful neighbour, Tsar Simeon I selected the fortified site of Veliki Preslav as a new capital city. Through the ninth and tenth centuries AD, the city was developed into one of the largest cities of the early Middle Ages in Europe. A fortified Inner City of palaces, churches and state buildings was accompanied by a large defended Outer City. The authors present the results of a recent geophysical survey, revealing patterning in the spatial and socio-economic organisation of the urban landscape between the ninth and fourteenth centuries AD.