We have already seen that some types of manufacturing industries existed in the Bulgars. It can be assumed that some luxury items, such as rings, earrings, chains, were also prepared by metal smiths using spruce metal. This is indicated in the things found among the Bulgare ruins 7). The result of relations with the east was the ability of the Bulgarians to mint coins. Military coins in huge quantities were distributed from the hands of the Bulgarians to the neighboring peoples in exchange for goods. In X Art. I began to feel the lack of them. At least three coins have come down to us, chieto boltareklya, check-
1) Our chronicle for the years 964 and 965 speaks clearly about this path. (Ipatiev. ltop. pp. 41-42). For interesting thoughts on this path, see Savelyeva, “Medan numismatics,” pp. SCHI-SKHSH.
_3) 0’Ozzoy, “Tez rear!ez @a Salsaze”, p. 79.
*, Savelyev “Mukhamedan Numismatics”, pp. KSTU et seq.
5) 0’0№330p. “lez rep]ez da Salsaze”, r. 79.
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?) Shiilesayai, “Ancient of Toroda”, pp. 273, 281 etc.
exiled in Bultarv and Suvar, under the kings Talibi and Munin% 1)
and dating back to 950 and 976 Todan, Oriental architects also appeared as teachers of the Bulgarians in the ancient arts. In his letter to Caliph Muktedir, the Bulgarian King Almus asked to send him knowledgeable people who would build mosques and fortify 2).
This wish was fulfilled: “All the stone buildings in the Bulgar were built according to the same simple method in which almost the entire Muslim East is built: they are laid along the edges of the most necessary% -