Markianopolis

My sites specialize in the city of Marcianopolis or Markianopolis in Moesia Inferior, especially in its coinage specifically the coins of Elagabalus.

My page on Moesia Inferior shows information about the different coin issuing cities in that region. Markianopolis was founded by Emperor Trajan (AD 98-117) and named after his sister Marciana. It issued coins from the reign of Commodus (AD 180-192) through about AD 248 after it successfully repelled an attack by the Goths. In AD 447 it was attacked by Attila the Hun. Its ruins are in a village called Devnya (Reka Devniya or Reka Devnia) (wikipedia) 43° 20' N, 27° 36' E (google satellite map). It is close to the current town of Burgas (google satellite map) in Bulgaria. It was 18 miles inland from the Black Sea, north of European Turkey. Below is a cropped portion of the public domain map found here. Markianopolis (Marcianoplis) can be found a little to the right of the center of the map under the first R in INFERIOR. Click to view it larger.

This page is a work in progress with links and other information that I find on Markianopolis and Devnya.

Devnya (wikipedia) has population 8,192 (as of 2007) 8,383 (as of 2009) and is located in Devnya Municipality (wikipedia) population 9,234 (as of 2009) which is in turn in the Varna Province (wikipedia), population 494,216 in 2016 in eastern Bulgaria (wikipedia). The following was a page I used prior to wikipedia's info. It no longer exists, but is in the WebArchive (It is in Bulgarian, but you can now use Google Translate which wasn't available when I was first doing this).

A page in Bulgarian with pictures of mosiacs found in Markianopolis. An index page by the same author and a map page.

A page from the University of Texas, Austin, Texas showing the Historical Maps of the Balkins.

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