The Water Supply and Drainage Systems in the City of Pliska, Varna District

Abstract

The archaeological excavations, carried out in the lnner and the Outer City of Pliska and already published, refer to the medieval water supply and drainage systems discovered there. They shed light on а number of problems presented bу the supplying of water to the first Bulgarian capital of Pliska. It has also been established that the basic water supply system in the Inner City was built at an enviable technical level at the same time as the fort wall in the first half of the 5. 6.-th century. The numerous newly-discovered water mains and sewers lay to the West of the Citadel and North and South of the South-Eastern Round Tower. This has made it possible to elucidate а number of questions concerning the way of life and economics as well as the cultural and settlement life not only in Pliska, but in medieval Bulgarian cities in general.