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1900 YEARS PAUTALIA – VELBUZHD – KYUSTENDIL
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 1900 YEARS PAUTALIA – VELBUZHD – KYUSTENDIL
In 106 in the center of the Thracian settlement Denteletika the Roman emperor Traian (98-117) established the bases of the present town of Kyustendil, the old Thracian -Roman town of Pautalia, which means “spring town”.
For the first time the name Pautalia is mentioned in an inscription of the built in 135 in honor of Emperor Adrian basilica. Till 270 Pautalia was a part of the territory of the Roman Province Thracia, after that it became a part of the newly established Roman Province Dacia Interior. During the Roman Epoch the town grew as an important administrative, economic, cultural and later church center and turned into the third most significant town on the territory of the Balkan Peninsula. During the Middle Ages and the Ottoman domination (14th – 19th century) the town kept its important role. |
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© Regional Historical Museum “Academician Yordan Ivanov”, Kyustendil - 2004-2006
