Erkesija

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The Erkesija ( Bulgarian Еркесия ) or Old Bulgarian border wall was a medieval border wall on the Bulgarian - Byzantine border and is today a cultural monument of national importance. The Erkesija was built by order of the Bulgarian ruler Krum in the 9th century and reached from today's Burgas on the Black Sea to Simeonowgrad on the Maritsa river . Their length was about 140 kilometers. The border wall parted shortly before Pirgos , and its sections reached the shores of today's Burgas and Mandra lakes .

The border wall was completely preserved until 1890 and was drawn in the Franzisco-Josephinische Landaufnahme (see map below). Today, several well-preserved pieces are documented along their entire length, one of them between the Deultum archaeological reserve and the district of Burgas Gorno Eserowo .

course

The Erkesija begins on the left bank of the Mariza, follows the course of the Sazlijka river northwards on its left eastern bank, then (after a bend north of Obrutschischte ) moves in a straight line in a north-easterly direction past Widinzi and crosses the Tundscha at Tenewo and then the Bakajizite hill country . On the north-eastern slope of the Bakajizite, the border wall initially turns in an easterly direction, runs between Bogorowo and Parwenez , south of Shitoswjat and in a south-easterly direction on the southern bank of the Russokastrenska River to the town of Deultum . From there, the Erkesija Wall divides into two arms and reaches the western bank of Lake Mandra at the confluence of the Mandrenska River, and the southern bank of Lake Burgas at Gorno Eserowo.

At Ljulin, near the bend to the east of the Bakadschizite, lies the Ziganska Erkesija fortification projecting southward from the wall in an arch shape . The Russokastro fortress was located between Deultum and Lake Burgas .

  • Course of the Erkesija

  • Course of the Erkesija

  • The Erkesija (yellow) near Burgas

literature

  • Ivan Karajotow , Stojan Rajtschewski , Mitko Ivanov: История на Бургас. От древността до средата на ХХ век. (on German, for example, history of the city of Burgas. From antiquity to the middle of the 20th century. ) Verlag Tafprint OOD, Plovdiv 2011, ISBN 978-954-92689-1-1 , p. 295.
  • Dimtscho Momtscilow: Pătna i selištna sistema meždu Iztočna Stara planina i "Erkesijata" 4-14 v (Vărbiški, Riški i Ajtoski prohodi). Varna 1999.
  • Vladislav Škorpil , Karel Škorpil : Някои бележки върху археологическите и историческите изследования в Тракия . Пловдив, 1885, PDF
  • Peter Soustal : Thrace (Thrace, Rhodope and Haimimontos). (= Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 6). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7001-1898-8 , pp. 261–262.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Soustal: Thrace (Thrace, Rhodope and Haimimontos).

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