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A team of archaeologists in Bulgaria has discovered a 13th century
monastery, as well as a 30-gram silver ring from medieval France.
According to a report by Sofia News Agency, the team of
archaeologists, led by Professor Nikolay Ovcharov, discovered the
part of a wall and medieval coins within it that are dated from 1210
to 1240, in the yard of the St Peter and St. Paul Church in the
medieval Bulgarian capital of Veliko Tarnovo.
Ovcharov believes that this was part of the Monastery of the
Bulgarian Patriarch in the 13th century.
This was the time of the Bulgarian Tsars Kaloyan (1197-1207), Boril
(1207-1218), and Ivan Asen II (1218-1241).
The monastery is believed to have been the center of the Tarnovo
Patriarchate at the time of the Union of the Bulgarian Orthodox
Church with the Catholic Church in the Vatican that latest from
1204, when Pope Innocent III declared Kaloyan “Emperors of
Wallachians and Bulgarians” until 1246.
The monastery was reconstructed after Veliko Tarnovo’s conquest by
the Ottoman Turkish Empire in 1393, later hosted the Tarnovo Bishop.
Its remains were fully destroyed in 1913 by an earthquake.
The team of archaeologist Nikolay Ovcharov also found a 30-gram
silver ring with a figure of lilies (fleur-de-lis) during their
excavations in the church yard.
Ovcharov is 100 percent sure that the ring originated in medieval
France since its decoration with enamel is typical of the French
goldsmiths, and the fleur-de-lis (lilies) were the sign of the
French rulers.
“I don’t claim that the ring
began to a king but it certainly was worn by a notable. Whether the
notable buried there was a French or a Bulgarian notable, we cannot
say for sure but we are certain that at that time the Bulgarian
high-life was already influenced by French “fashion” and style of
clothing and jewelry that was brought by the Crusades”, Professor
Ovcharov said.
His team has also discovered a number
of other items that include two more rings, one of which has an
inscription dated back to the beginning of the 15th century with the
name “Simonis” or “Simeonis”, and a silver gold-coated earring from
the beginning of the 13th century, and a female belt.
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