학술논문

Syrian and Armenian Christianity in Northern Macedonia from the Middle of the Eighth to the Middle of the Ninth Century
Document Type
article
Author
Source
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, Iss 10, Pp 461-476 (2019)
Subject
Northern Macedonia
Early Slavic Christianity
Hagiography
Strumica
Syrian Christianity
Armenian Christianity
Baptism of Bulgaria
Archaeology
CC1-960
Language
Bulgarian
English
Russian
ISSN
2219-8857
Abstract
Syrian and Armenian influence has been felt in the Old Bulgarian culture by different scholars, such as archaeologists and architecture historians as well as historians of the earliest Bulgarian writing and manuscripts. Some of them, looking for a possible source of this influence, pointed to resettling a large Syrian and Armenian population from the former Roman Armenia's lands in the Caliphate to northern Macedonia in the 750s. An exhaustive overview of the literary sources related to this resettlement (in Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Armenian) demonstrates that took place a translatio urbis of Theodosiopolis/Karin (modern Erzurum) together with a great part of Christian population of the Great Armenia and Melitene. The immigrants created new cities where preserved and developed their local cults, including the famous cult of the Fifteen Martyrs of Theodosiopolis/Strumica.