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482: 467: 25: 440: 455: 494: 428: 179: 282:. The yard north of the basilica also accommodated monastic buildings with a kitchen and a dining room. The eastern part of the yard was allocated for a residential building with ten identical monastic cells. Another bath with a hypocaust, a cross-shaped one, and a well lay in the centre of that yard. 294:
in the late 7th century; this legend is archaeologically unsubstantiated. The site was originally an encampment, with the first tent-shaped buildings at Pliska of uncertain date. No evidence exists of a settlement before the 9th century, and claims that the site dates from
259:. The martyrium is thought to have been destroyed in 865 during the failed rebellion of the heathens in the wake of the Christianization of Bulgaria. Other researchers, however, regard the cross-shaped remains as a mausoleum of early 373:) converted to Christianity in 864, the religious buildings of Pliska were adapted for Christian use and it was after this point that the Great Basilica was constructed, together with a 278:
are located in the vicinity of the complex: a monastic necropolis lies to the southwest of the church, while a secular one intended for nobles was unearthed in front of the basilica's
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The basilica was built at the place of what is known as the cross-shaped Mausoleum, an older religious building that is thought by some researchers to be an unknown kind of
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The archbishop's residence lay to the north and south of the basilica: the northern yard hosted a residential building, with a bath with a
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that included a cross-shaped church and a holy spring also existed at that place. The martyr buried there is thought to be
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and 2,300 hectares (5,700 acres) of land was further enclosed by an outer earthwork with stone
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lay to the west of it. The building to the south of the cathedral accommodated a school and a
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from nearby Roman buildings and employing late Roman-inspired rectilinear and
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Pliska was the first capital of Bulgaria, and according to legend founded by
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have been contested. By the early 9th century, Pliska was surrounded by a
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which was attached to it. The monastery was home to the disciples of
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was 102.5 metres (336 ft) long and 30 metres (98 ft) wide.
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Religious buildings and structures completed in the 870s
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Christian monasteries established in the 9th century
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sacked and burned Pliska in 811, led by the emperor
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architectural museum's research, an early Christian
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