KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Maria Manolova-Voikova – mara_manolova@yahoo.de, Igor Lazarenko) The explorations were carried out in the central part of the fortress, to the west of the street that led from the central gate to the south. Houses with one and two rooms of the 14th – beginning of the 15th centuries were excavated, situated to the north and south of the church that was discovered in 2014. The houses adjoined each other and were built of small ashlars bonded with mud. Their outer walls were 0.80 – 1 m wide and their inner walls were 60 – 80 cm wide. A stone stove was documented in the building in Trench ХХVІ/1 and sherds and coins of the 14th century were found, including a coin of the Bulgarian King Ivan Alexander. An earlier floor was documented at 30 cm beneath the floor of the house and finds of the 14th century were found on it. A layer with fragmented building ceramics and sherds from amphorae of the 5th – 6th centuries AD was documented at 1.70 m beneath the earlier floor. The building in Trench ХХVІ/6-7 had two entrances and two floor levels were explored there. An oven was discovered on the later floor and sherds and Ottoman silver akçe of the end of the 14th century were found. A coin of Andronikos III Palaiologos was found in the clay plaster of the floor. The earlier floor was situated 50 cm beneath and finds of the 14th century were found on it. A layer of ash and burned wooden beams was discovered in the building in Trench ХХVІ/11-12, containing a copper mangır of Sultan Bayezid I. Three floor levels were explored in the building in Trench ХХVІ/22-23. A midden pit was dug into the earliest floor, containing animal bones and sherds, the latest ones of AD 1300 – 1350. The finds from the excavations included tools, jewelry, sherds mostly of the 14th century the 169 coins, the earliest ones of Odessos minted in the 4th century BC and the latest ones Austrian Kreutzer of 1858, but mostly of the 14th – beginning of the 15th centuries, predominantly Ottoman coins of Sultan Bayezid I and Emir Süleyman Çelebi.