Bulgaria in Antiquity. An Archaeological Introduction

 

Ralph F. Hoddinott

 

 

Ernest Benn Limited,

London & Tonbridge 1975

 

Scans in .pdf format (104 Mb)

Ratiaria, Hercules, statuette,

 

Contents

List of Plates (1 – 202)

Maps  (1 – 2)

 

List of Figures  (1 – 105)

 

In gratitude to the archaeologists and others who, whether in person or through their work, have made this book possible

    Foreword – Acknowledgements – Abbreviations

    Historical outline

I. THRACIANS AND GREEKS

1. The land and the people

2. The Black sea cities

Apollonia Pontica — Mesambria — Odessos

3. The Thracian interior before the Macedonian conquest

Dolno Sahrane — Douvanli — Mezek — Vratsa

4. Macedonian and Hellenistic influences

Philippopolis — The Panagyurishte treasure — Branichevo — Seuthopolis — Tumuli of Seuthopolis and the Kazanluk region — Kabyle — Beroe and its vicinity — Chertigrad

II. THE ROMAN PRESENCE

5. The Danube Limes

Ratiaria and the north-west — Oescus and its vicinity — Nikopol — Novae — Iatrus — Transmarisca — Durostorum

6. The northern foothills (I)

Nicopolis-ad-Istrum and the central slopes — Marcianopolis — Abritus — Voivoda — Madara

7. Serdica and the west (I)

Serdica and its territory — Pautalia and its territory — Sandanski — The upper Mesta valley

8 The Thracian plain (I)

Philippopolis and its vicinity — Hissar — Beroe-Augusta Trajana and its vicinity — Chatalka — The eastern Rhodopes

9 The Black sea coast (I)

The southern cities — Odessos and the north

III. CHRISTIANITY AND THE BYZANTINE WITHDRAWAL

10 The end of the Limes

Byzantium displaces Rome — The limes in the fifth and sixth centuries

11 The northern foothills (II)

The central slopes — The north-east

12 Serdica and the west (II)

Serdica and the central region — Pautalia and the South-West

13 The Thracian plain (II)

Philippopolis — Peroushtitsa — Isperihovo — Golyamo Belovo — Hissar — Beroe — Chatalka — The eastern Rhodopes

14 The Black sea coast (II)

Mesambria and the south — Odessos and the north

 

 

Select bibliography — Site bibliography — Note on pronunciation

Index

 

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