Posted on 07/01/2015 4:58:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An ancient fortress unknown to Bulgarian and international archaeology has been discovered in the thick and almost subtropical forests along the Ropotamo River in Southeast Bulgaria, the National Museum of History in Sofia has announced.
The discovery has been made by Dr. Ivan Hristov, Deputy Director of the National Museum of History, who has also been excavating several other archaeological sites along Bulgaria's Southern Black Sea coast, including the Talaskara Fortress on Cape Chervenka (Chrisosotira).
The previously unknown fortress, which appears to have been inhabited by Ancient Thracians, has been found in "the jungle of the Ropotamo" River, in the wording of the Museum statement, in the region of the Black Sea resort town of Primorsko.
The newly found fortress has an area of about 3 decares (app. 0.75 acres), and is located on a hill with natural defenses on one of the curves of the Ropotamo River. The surrounding steep rocks make it very hard to reach the stronghold, and it can only be accessed through a narrow wood path whose route leading up to it is guarded by a fortress tower...
The archaeologists have already unearthed part of the fortress wall, the ruins of homes covered with tiled roofs, and a "weird stone circle". In its center, they have found Ancient Thracian ceramic urns decorated with depictions of bull heads.
Other intriguing discoveries are silver coins of the Ancient Greek colony Apollonia Pontica (today's Sozopol) on the Black Sea coast, and the Ancient Thracian city of Maroneia on the Mediterranean coast...
Hristov has identified the name of the Pharmakida Fortress on old maps of the local forestry service.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeologyinbulgaria.com ...
The mouth of the Ropotamo River in Southeast Bulgaria, which flows into the Black Sea. The thick semi-tropical forests along the Ropotamo have been hiding the previously unknown Ancient Thracian fortress Pharmakida. Photo: Cross News Agency
Subtropical:
Temperatures[edit]
Tadrart Acacus desert, part of the Sahara, in western Libya.
Several methods have been used to define the subtropical climate. In the Trewartha climate classification, a subtropical region should have at least eight months with a mean temperature of 10 °C (50.0 °F) or above. German climatologists Carl Troll and Karlheinz Paffen defined Warm temperate zones as plain and hilly lands having an average temperature of the coldest month between 2 °C (35.6 °F) and 13 °C (55.4 °F) in the Northern Hemisphere and between 6 °C (42.8 °F) and 13 °C (55.4 °F) in the Southern Hemisphere, excluding oceanic and continental climates. According to the Troll-Paffen climate classification, there generally exists one large subtropical zone named the warm-temperate subtropical zone,[4] which is subdivided into seven smaller areas.[5]
According to the E. Neef climate classification, the subtropical zone is divided into two parts: Rainy winters of the west sides and Eastern subtropical climate.[6] According to the Wilhelm Lauer & Peter Frankenberg climate classification, the subtropical zone is divided into three parts: high-continental, continental, and maritime.[7] According to the Siegmund/Frankenberg climate classification, subtropical is one of six climate zones in the world.[8]
Source: Wikipedia
He raped Thrace thrice?
She shouldn’t dress that way.
Is this the area where Jason sought the golden fleece?
The Ancient Thracian Stone Circle (Cromlech) at Bulgaria’s Staro Zhelezare after its discovery and excavation by late Bulgarian archaeologist Georgi Kitov in 2001. Photo: Georgi Kitov/Staro Zhelezare Facebook Page
Reminds me of the fragmentary grave circle at Mycenae. Thanks for that pic.
That was at Colchis, y’know, assuming that it actually happened.
Thanks, I guess Medea and Stalin were from the same area.
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