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The cult of the fifteen Tiberioupolitan martyrs is one of the most intriguing cults in medieval Bulgaria. There are, however, a lot of questions about this cult, some of which I address in this paper. The earliest evidence of the cult is their mention in the Evangelarium Assemani (late 10th – early 11th C.), at 29th August, but only three of the martyrs are listed. Another important source for this...
The article is devoted to a few problems: 1. how Symeon and Leo the Philosopher looked at the Bulgarian-Byzantine war of 894–896; 2. what place it took in their life ex- periences; 3. how it was inscribed in the concept of relations between countries whose inhabitants follow the same religion. The war of the years 894–896 showed that Symeon was not only a cabinet scholar and a former monk, but a statesman,...
The epithet ‘first witnesses’, conferred on the three saints in the title, is but a conventional
designation; it seems fitting as common for the figures of saints, who gave proof of
their devotion to Christ. Otherwise, although they make no simultaneous appearance in any
of the canonical texts, there are – interestingly – far more interconnections between the three
characters in pseudo-canonical...
At the beginning of the 11th century, after decades of almost incessant wars with the Byzantine Empire, the Bulgarian state lost its political independence. In many research works on the period in question there is emphasis put on the stabilization of the Empire at the end of the 10th and the beginning of the 11th century as a major factor or a reason for the loss of our political independence for...
The complicated fates of the Porphyry Column of emperor Constantine resemble the reach and difficult history of Constantinople, the New Rome and capital of the eastern Empire from its very beginnings. Perceived by the Constantinopolitans as both Christian and pagan monument, adorned with legends repeated and enriched by generations, it was always a landmark of the city. The article summarizes, compares...
Support in sport is certainly one of the oldest human passions. Residents of the eastern Roman imperial capital cheered the chariot drivers. The passion for supporting the drivers was common for all groups and social classes. The hippodrome was visited by the representatives of the aristocracy, artisans and the poor of the city alike. The popularity of chariot racing is evidenced by their frequency...
Until recently the so-called Slavic version of the Chronicle of George Synkellos has not been paid proper attention. The attribution of Vasilij Istrin who in the beginning of the 20th c. identified the Slavic text as a translation from an abridged redaction of the Byzantine chronicle, was thoroughly accepted by the Slavic studies researchers. As a result, no great importance was attached to the Slavic...
The current study attempts to trace the history and retrieve the recipe of a specific dish called kándaulos/kándylos. It was a Greek delicacy developed in Lydia and named after a Lydian ruler, known by the name Candaules. The dish was (by means of the Greek Ionians in habiting Asia Minor) borrowed by the Greeks to have been established in the areas of the southern Balkan Peninsula by the 5th c.B.C...
The aim of this article is to illustrate how the rich data which was gathered during the
scholarly work on Macedonia, Southern Part (Tabula Imperii Byzantini, 11) as well as on Macedonia,
Northern Part (Tabula Imperii Byzantini, 16) from 2002 until 2010 can be combined with applications
deriving from Historical Geographic Information System (HGIS) in order to create a case study
on the transportation...
The paper examines the role of the cult of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica as a tool of maintaining
legitimacy of the anti-Byzantine revolt in Tărnovo, 1185–1186, led by brothers Theodore-
Peter and Asen-Belgun, which is viewed in the modern scholarship as a starting point of the history
of the so-called Second Bulgarian Empire.
Apart from the peculiarities of the official and popular veneration...
The author tries to classify the tax privileges that existed in Ancient Rome. He gives a few examples of reliefs and exemptions, and provides their short legal and lexical analyses. Finally, he discusses whether some of them may be truly considered as exemptions or privileges.
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