Античният и средновековен град Перперикон
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This book is an account or decades of explorations conducted on a grand scale on Perperikon, one of the best-known archaeological sites in Bulgaria. People lived on this famous hill near Kardzhali 7,000 years ago, in the Late Chalcolithic. A sanctuary was built there to function well into the Bronze, the Early and the Late Iron Ages (second-first mill. BC). With the Roman conquest at the turn of the Common Era, a major city was founded there, flourishing in the medieval period until it fell to the Ottomans in 1362 after a long siege. The book goes into detail about, first and foremost, the ancient and medieval periods of Perperikon within the city's fortified part, the Acropolis. The structure of the city is established, in the first instance, in the Roman and Late Antique periods to arrive at the conclusion that an unprecedented in history attempt has been made to develop the ancient urban planning in the challenging semi-mountainous areas of the Eastern Rhodopes. It was then that new streets were laid out and monumental public buildings and houses, temples and fortified strongholds were erected in the Acropolis of Perperikon. With the conversion to Christianity in the early fifth century, remarkable churches were built on the site of pagan temples.
