Pliska
Imperial capital
city in Kaspichan municipality, Shumen oblast, Bulgaria
Location: 43.3620, 27.1254
What this place is
- Imperial capital — the first capital of the Bulgarian state, from about 681 until the court moved to Preslav in 893
Who is recorded here
- Nikephoros I death · AD 811
- Boris I of Bulgaria birth · AD 827
What happened here
- Baptism of Boris of Bulgaria AD 864
In art
About the place
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.
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