Occurrence of cities Volga Bulgaria and Bulgars areas of the Gold Horde (according to archaeology)
Becoming of cities and city culture in Bulgaria at stages of historical development of region was a miscellaneous. In IX–X century passed natural process of a urbanization accompanied numerical growth of the population and the increased needs of a society for products of craft manufacture. It was stimulated with two phenomena – bulgar trading expansion and formation of system of relations of settled population Bulgar and its neighbours – nomads. The international communications were very important in city bulgar construction in second half till the Mongolian period. The period XIII–XIV century in history Volga Bulgar is rather original. That that before invasion was the partial phenomenon, as for example, the state basis and construction of cities, in Golden Horde became practically a rule. At the same time, there was also a hierarchy of relations of the center and periphery – bulgars cities promptly became provincial and in new conditions became almost agrarian.