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  • Shishmanovo Kale Fortress
  • Samokov
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    • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

      MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

      ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

      AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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    Periods

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      • EXPLORATIONS OF SHISHMANOVO KALE FORTRESS NEAR SAMOKOV (Veselin Hadzhiangelov – vhajiangelov@yahoo.com) The lay-out of the fortress, occupying an area of 2.5 ha, was clarified in 2004. The site can be identified as a settlement with a suburb and a fortifie... Read More
      • SHISHMANOVO KALE FORTRESS NEAR SAMOKOV (Veselin Hadzhiangelov – vhajiangelov@yahoo.com) The excavations of the Early Byzantine church continued. It is a single-nave basilica, 16 m by 6.25 m in size, with a chapel adjoining its southern wall and measuring 8... Read More
      • EXPLORATIONS NEAR SAMOKOV (Veselin Hadzhiangelov – vhajiangelov@yahoo.com) The church in Sector 2 is a single-nave basilica. There is an additionally built chapel adjoined to its southern wall. The basilica has a synthrone with two steps and an entrance an... Read More
      • ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR SAMOKOV (Veselin Hadzhiangelov – vhajiangelov@yahoo.com, Anastasia Cholakova) The area to the south of the basilica, in front of its entrance, was explored in Sector 2 (Early Byzantine basilica extra muros). A wall, constru... Read More
      • ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR SAMOKOV (Veselin Hadzhiangelov – vhajiangelov@yahoo.com, Anastasia Cholakova) A layer with burned debris, situated above the floor level, was finally explored in the building in Sector 1B. It was related to the destruction ... Read More
      • EXPLORATIONS NEAR SAMOKOV (Anastasia Cholakova – anastasia.cholakova@gmail.com, Veselin Hadzhiangelov) Part of the northeastern fortification wall and adjacent Building No. 1 were explored in Sector 1B. An earlier structure was documented under the buildin... Read More
      • SHISHMANOVO KALE FORTRESS (Veselin Hadzhiangelov – vhajiangelov@yahoo.com) The archaeological explorations were resumed. A fortification gate 2.90 m wide was discovered, built of roughly-cut stones and boulders bonded with mortar. The road from the gate le... Read More
      • SHISHMANOVO KALE FORTRESS (Veselin Hadzhiangelov – vhajiangelov@yahoo.com) The explorations were carried out in Sector 1 in the northern part of the site where the main fortification gate and Church No. 1 were situated, and in Sector 1A located to the sout... Read More
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    • 700 AD

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