Pliska ( , ) was the first capital of the First Bulgarian Empire during the Middle Ages and is now a small town in Shumen Province, on the Ludogorie plateau of the Danubian Plain, 20 km northeast of the provincial capital, Shumen.
Pliska was the first capital of Bulgaria. According to legend, it was founded by Asparuh of Bulgaria 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.
By the early 9th century, Pliska was surrounded by a defensive wall and of land was further enclosed by an outer earthwork with stone revetment long. a name which it kept until 1925, when the name was changed to Pliskov, a variant of the current name. The settlement has a population of 1,124 and is located 146 m above sea level in Shumen Province at the south end of the Ludogorie plateau. It is approximately 400 km northeast of Sofia, at .
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Image:Old Basilica in Pliska.jpg|The Great Basilica
Image:Ruins in Pliska Palace 9.JPG|Ruins of the royal palace
Image:Pliska - Gate.JPG|Gate to the castle
Image:Old Basilica in Pliska 2.JPG|The Great Basilica
Image:Boris-Mihail of Bulgaria 2.jpg|Monument to Boris I
Image:Pliska.png|Pliska, plan of the palace complex
Image:Pliska Reservoir.jpg
Image:Old Basilica in Pliska 6.JPG
Image:Old Basilica in Pliska 5.JPG
Image:Old Basilika,Pliska 2.jpg
Image:Pliska Fortress 2.jpg
Image:Old Basilica in Pliska Reconstruction.JPG
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External links
- Materials from the first archaeological excavations in Pliska: Материалы для болгарских древностей. Абоба-Плиска. - Известия Русского археологического института в Константинополе. Т. Х (1905) (in Russian).