Trapezitsa (Bulgarian: Трапезица) is a medieval stronghold located on a hill with the same name in Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria. Trapezitsa is located...
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List of cities with defensive walls (redirect from Fortress town)
Trajan Varna Veliko Turnovo – three fortified hills – Trapezitsa fortress, Tsarevets fortress and Sveta Gora make one city capital of Bulgaria Vidin...
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(676 ft) above sea level. It served as the Second Bulgarian Empire's primary fortress and strongest bulwark between 1185 and 1393, housing the royal and the...
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Ciglane, Sarajevo, Kosi lift Veliko Tarnovo, Trapezitsa fortress (opened 2014) Belchin, Tsari Mali Grad fortress (opened 2013) Zagreb, Funicular Xavier Zagreb...
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Vishegrad (Bulgarian: Вишеград) is a medieval fortress in the Rhodope Mountains of southern Bulgaria rising over a promontory in the valley of the river...
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Storgosia, Pleven Trajan's Gate Roman fortress, near Sofia Trapezitsa fortress, Veliko Tarnovo Tsarevets fortress and castle, Veliko Tărnovo Tsepina, Dorkovo...
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Mezek Fortress (Bulgarian: Мезешка крепост) is a medieval stronghold constructed in the 11th and 12th centuries west of the modern village of Mezek, southeastern...
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The Belogradchik Fortress (Bulgarian: Белоградчишка крепост, Belogradchishka krepost), also known as Kaleto (Калето, "the fortress" from Turkish kale)...
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Asen's Fortress (Bulgarian: Асенова крепост, romanized: Asenova krepost), identified by some researchers as Petrich (Петрич), is a medieval fortress in the...
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Patmos (Bulgarian: Патмос) is a medieval fortress in the Rhodope Mountains of southern Bulgaria rising over a promontory near the confluence of the rivers...
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The Shumen Fortress (Bulgarian: Шуменска крепост, Shumenska krepost) is an archaeological site overlooking the city of Shumen in north-eastern Bulgaria...
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Baba Vida (redirect from Baba Vida Fortress)
course of the Middle Ages and acted as the citadel of the most important fortress of northwestern Bulgaria. The Baba Vida stronghold withstood an eight-month-long...
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the Slavs apparently led to its abandonment. Trapezitsa fortress Trapezitsa is one of the three fortresses of Tarnovgrad, the capital of the Second Bulgarian...
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so-called Nov grad (New town) was established between the main fortress hills of Tsarevets, Trapezitsa and Momina Krepost. During this period, the population...
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42°40′40″N 24°44′2″E / 42.67778°N 24.73389°E / 42.67778; 24.73389 The Anevo Fortress (Bulgarian: Аневско кале, Anevsko kale) or Kopsis (Копсис) is a medieval...
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thought to have been a sacred place. The village of Gorna krepost ("Upper Fortress") is located at the foot of the hill and the gold-bearing Perpereshka River...
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Urvich (redirect from Urvich fortress)
as Kokalyane Urvich because nearest village - Kokalyane) is a medieval fortress in the territory of today's quarter Pancharevo, heir to the village of...
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Momina krepost (Maiden’s Fortress) (Bulgarian: Момина крепост) also called Devingrad(Bulgarian: Девинград) is a medieval stronghold located on a hill with...
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Ktenia (Bulgarian: Ктения, Greek: Κτένια) is a ruined Roman and medieval fortress, 2.1 kilometres (1.3 mi) north of the village of Lozarevo in Sungurlare...
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architecture. The old part of the town is situated on three hills, Tsarevets, Trapezitsa, and Sveta Gora, rising amidst the meanders of the Yantra. On Tsarevets...
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The fortress of Kipilovo (Bulgarian: Кипилово) was one of the Byzantine Empire's military fortresses built to defend Constantinople. The ruins of the fortress...
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Succi. Later it was named after Roman Emperor Trajan, on whose order a fortress by the name of Stipon was constructed on the hill over the pass, as a symbolic...
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Chatalar Inscription of 822. Earlier structures in the vicinity of the fortress have been identified as the Arian episcopal see of a Gothic bishop. The...
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Monyak (Bulgarian: Моняк) is a 12th-century medieval fortress in the Rhodope Mountains of southern Bulgaria, mentioned in the chronicles of the Fourth...
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The Asara Fortress (Bulgarian: крепост Асара) is a medieval stronghold located about a kilometer southwest from the village Zvezdel in Kardzhali Province...
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Krivus (Bulgarian: Кривус) is a medieval fortress in the Rhodope Mountains of southern Bulgaria rising over a high hill on the meanders of the river Arda...
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cultural centres between the 12th and the 14th century. The ruins of the fortress are located near the village of the same name 30 to 35 kilometres (19 to...
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positioning of the fortress. The Yantra river makes double curve around the two main fortresses in the capital Tarnovo, Tsarevets and Trapezitsa and served as...
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Byalgrad (redirect from White Fortress)
Byalgrad (Bulgarian: Бялград, "white fortress") is a medieval fortress located eight kilometres from the village Gugutka in Haskovo Province, southeastern...
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few authentic works of Tarnovo architecture. Today, the fortresses of Tsarevets and Trapezitsa, the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Veliko Tarnovo, the...
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