Murfatlar cave monastery
The Murfatlar Cave Monastery (English Murfatlar Cave Complex ) was an Orthodox rock monastery from the 9th to the 11th century near the present-day city of Murfatlar in the Dobruja region in Romania .
The monastery was probably founded in the 9th century during the Byzantine Empire . It consisted of various cells, churches, tombs and tombs carved into a limestone rock. It persisted even after the Bulgarians conquered the area . The monastery was probably dissolved in the early 11th century after the end of the First Bulgarian Empire.
The facility was only rediscovered in 1957. Inscriptions were found in Greek , in a Turkic language ( Proto-Bulgarian ?) And in Old Slavonic (in Glagolitic and Cyrillic script ). In addition, scratched drawings (graffiti) have been preserved.
literature
- Kazimir Popkonstantinov: The inscriptions of the Murfatlar rock monastery. In: The Slavic Languages. 10, 1986, pp. 77-106.