laid stones with lime, and the middle of the building is filled with lime and small stones and thus erected. any building The outside of the building is lined with smoothly hewn stone, & the inside is plastered; small houses are coated, however not always, with lime to make the walls smooth. The sharp corners of the stones still stick out. In large buildings, the oltars always used a round dome, bringing it together, mostly in the same way, with recesses in the corners of the quadruple body." 3). The best examples of ancient Bulgarian architecture - mosques and a bathhouse - have been preserved for us. From them it is clear that the Bulgarians built their buildings on the model of the Mesopotamian-Arabs, and that the success of the architecture these were quite significant.”). The art of construction after the 10th century developed in Bulgarv so much that in Rus' more Tarekle architects used the same know-how as the Germans. So in 1230, one of the princes of the Suzdal land, Ovyatoslav Veevolodovich, invited a Bulgarian architect to build a church in Yuryevz Polsky 5). Construction material for stone buildings was also brought from Bulgaria 6). It must be said that the rise of Bulgarian culture is not the result of the fact that the Bulgarians adopted Islamism. Of course, the latter connected the Bulgarian land with distant Batdad with even more friendly ties, but the main civilizing factor was trade and industrial ties, which began with the U'v., vol. 6., even before the appearance of Islam in Arabia. Mathometan religion, thank you. old, already established relations with the
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2) Swims. 566.
3) Berezin “Bulgar on the Volg”, p. 85.
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5) Tatishchev “History of Russia”, book three. 1774. p. 456.
8) Handwritten bench press by Andrei Bogolyubsky. (Dobrokhotov “The Ancient City of Bogolyubov”. We take from Shpilevsky “Ancient Cities”, p. 114).
` runoff, began to penetrate into the Bulgarian land, undoubtedly, even before the 10th century. And ViZetV brought with her to Bulgar an imitation of Arabic education and way of life. This is proven by the fact that the Halyea embassy in 922 already found mosques and certain clergy in the capitals of the Bulgarian kingdom; the king had a court tailor from Baghdad, this center of civilization and fashion to the east in the 10th time; King Almus himself knew the Arabic language, since he read the letter without a translator haliea, in the presence of their henchmen kings and nobles, ‘which forces them to understand the Arabic language’). After the adoption of Islam, they had primary schools 2). Greek. It is not surprising that among the Bulgarians themselves there were followers of different religions, of course, it was dominant even before X. We know absolutely nothing about it and we can only assume that it was not much different from the religions of other Finnish-Ugric tribes 3). One of the Arabic writers reported that the Bulgarian pilgrims in Mekyuw said that they were Christians before the adoption of Islamism.” Of course, the Bulgarians weren’t previously Christians, but only. These are indications that could with the establishment of Islam. in Bulgaria convert to Mohammedanism. There is nothing strange about the fact that among the Bulgarians there were followers of Judaism. The Bulgarians had their deepest connections with the Khazars, and there, as we will see below, Judaism was quite strong and was even a religion of the government. In one of the Bulgarian cities, the inhabitants were initially Jews, and then became Muslims 5). Like this. Thus, until the final establishment of Mathematicalism, the Bulgarian people were divided among all religions. Let us summarize some of the everyday features preserved by Ibn Fotslan in his notes. Were visible in Bulgar
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*) Izvfsme Ibn-Dast (Khvolzon, p. 23).
°) Essay on religion. The beliefs of the Finno-Ugric tribes would lead us too far astray, and therefore we refer those interested to those ethnographic materials that we indicated earlier.
") B'OVzzop. "Res reir]ez di Sapsase", p. 216.
5) Az-Mukadessi (Khvolzon. Izvfst1ya Ibn-Dast, p. 84).