Kabile
Kabile ( Bulgarian Кабиле ) Kabyle or Cabyle, is a village in southeastern Bulgaria , part of the municipality of Tundzha the Oblast Yambol . The ruins of the ancient Thracian royal city of Kabyle are nearby; the city was an important fortress even in the Middle Ages .
geography
Kabile is located 3 km northwest of the southeast Bulgarian city of Yambol directly on the Thrace motorway (separate exit). Sajchi wrach , the last foothill of the Sredna Gora mountain range , is located 1.5 km north of Kabile. The road from Yambol to the village of Schelju Wojwoda in Sliven Oblast passes through Kabile, as does the road from Iambol to the village of Draschewo .
The name of the village is derived from Kybele .
history
The area had been inhabited since the second millennium BC, and traces of an even older Neolithic culture were discovered. Ceramics from the 10th to 6th centuries BC prove that the region was inhabited in the early Iron Age . In 341 BC Kabyle was founded or re-founded by Philip II of Macedonia ; he had the city fortified and it became a polis in the following years . After the reign of Philip II it was under that of Alexander the Great and that of Diadoch Lysimachus . 280 BC BC it came under the control of the Thracian Odrysen Empire . The city's prosperity decreased in the second century BC. As a result of an aggressive campaign by Philip V of Macedonia . It later fell to the Celtic king Kauaros , lord of the Celtic kingdom of Tylis . The city struck coins for the local Thracian rulers Spartokos (early 3rd century BC) and Sostokos, as well as for the Celtic Cavarus. The Roman general Lucullus conquered Kabyle in 72 BC. During his advance against the Pontic king Mithridates VI. and his followers in Thrace.
Kabyle was one of the most important and largest cities in Thrace . The architecture , largely preserved and restored in places, gives an impression of this.
The Christianity spread in the area as early as the 4th century. BC. During this time Kabyle was Diospolis and became the seat of a bishop. The titular bishopric of Diospolis in Thracia goes back to this bishopric. The city was finally destroyed by the Avars in the 6th century AD . In the 9th century the remains of the city and the surrounding area fell to the First Bulgarian Empire and a Bulgarian settlement emerged on the ruins of the ancient city.
Other names for the village were Iswor ("spring") after a nearby water source. The name "Kabile" was reintroduced in the 1950s.
economy
Most of the population of Kabiles work in Yambol. The economy is largely based on agriculture. There is also a candy factory.
Others
The island Kabile Iceland , part of the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica is named after Kabile.
literature
- Iris von Bredow : Kabyle. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , column 128.
- Christo Danoff : Kabyle. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 39.
- Velizar Velkov (Ed.): Кабиле. Том I (= Kabile, Vol. 1). Bulgarian Academy of Sciences publishing house, Sofia 1982.
- Welisar Welkow : KABYLE (or Cabyle) Bulgaria . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .