About the authors
| First name, Middle name, Last name, Scientific degree, Scientific rank, Current position. Full and brief name of the organization, The organization address. | Nadyrova Kh.G. – candidate of architecture, associate professor E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering The organization address: 420043, Russia, Kazan, Zelenaya st., 1 |
| Title of the article | Urban development of the Volga-Kama Bulgaria and Eastern Muslim regions of Eurasia in the X-first half of the XIII centuries |
| Abstract. | The report examines the development of cities of the Volga-Kama Bulgaria against the background of medieval town planning of the Eastern Muslim regions of Eurasia. Urban planning began to develop in the regions with the formation of their territories. The most ancient traditions of urban development possessed the Middle East, Central Asia. In the medieval period, with the spread of Islam, the urban development of these regions is being developed on a new coil of preserving some of the ancient and antique traditions in the device cities. To the turn of the IX-X centuries the Muslim world extends to the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and the southern part of the territory of Western Europe. The cities of these regions developed on the basis of some traditions of the ancient town planning and communion with other Muslim States. In the same period in the beginning of X century in Eastern Europe formed the government of the Volga-Kama Bulgaria, where appeared and developed cities of special type. They reflected the specificity of interaction of settled and nomadic (semi-nomadic) lifestyles of the population. Islam became the state religion. Comparative analysis of town planning development of the Volga-Kama Bulgaria and Eastern Muslim regions of Eurasia in the pre-Mongol period has allowed to establish the following. Formation of urban development in the Volga-Kama region was synchronously to the urban expansion in Eastern Muslim regions of Eurasia. Urban development of the Volga-Kama in the X-XIII centuries proceeded within a single urban process with the Eastern Muslim regions of Eurasia and possessed him of the hallmarks of a community. General patterns of urban development of these regions was the construction around the cities of powerful defensive walls with the device of ramparts and ditches. And distribution of the Eastern Muslim types of buildings in cities: a mosque, a madrasah, a bath-Hammam. |
| Keywords. | History of urban development, the middle ages, the Muslim civilization. |
| For citations: | Nadyrova Kh.G. Urban development of the Volga-Kama Bulgaria and Eastern Muslim regions of Eurasia in the X-first half of the XIII centuries // Izvestiya KGASU. 2014. №1(27) P.27-35. |
