• 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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  • Visegrad (redirect from Vishegrad)
    "upper town" (or "acropolis"), may refer to: Vishegrad, Kardzhali Province, a village in Bulgaria Vishegrad, the highest peak of Sakar Mountain in Bulgaria...
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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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    (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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    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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    and is now a monument of medieval architecture. Apart from the fortress of Vishegrad on the right bank of the Arda, the eastern approaches of the town...
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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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    The hill is surrounded by a thick fortress wall made of crushed stone. Its height reached 6 meters. The fortress was entered through four entrances....
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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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  • (Bulgarian: Красен) or Krasen Kale (Bulgarian: Красен Кале) is a Bulgarian fortress near the village of Bata in the Pazardzhik Province. It is about 3 kilometres...
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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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    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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    visibility towards the Vishegrad Fortress (306 m) on the right bank of the Arda some 4.5 km to the west, as well as to the fortress of the medieval Monastery...
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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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    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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  • just north of the village is located the medieval Bulgarian fortress of Vishegrad. Vishegrad Knoll on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica is named after the...
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  • empires, but the Byzantines held it most of the time. Vishegrad Fortress castle Vishegrad is a fortress dated from the Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Višegrad (Serbian Cyrillic: Вишеград, Albanian: Vishegrad) or Prizrenac (Призренац), is a fortress located 2 km southeast of Prizren in the Bistrica gorge...
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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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    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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    and pottery found on the site date to the 12th–14th centuries, when the fortress was repeatedly fought over between the Byzantines and Bulgarians due to...
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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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    Persia. In the Hellenistic era, a second fortress wall was built inland, and in Roman times the Thracian fortress was expanded. In the years 341–342, round...
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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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    Castra ad Montanesium is a ruined Roman fortress in the town of Montana, Bulgaria. It was built as the town grew to greater importance as a Roman settlement...
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    Storgosia was a Roman road station and later a fortress, located in the modern Kaylaka Park in the vicinity of modern Pleven (North-central Bulgaria)....
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  • Thumbnail for Bozhenishki Urvich
    Bozhenishki Urvich is a ruined fortress on the northern slopes of Lakavishki ridge in the western Balkan Mountains/ Stara Planina(Old Mountain), 3 km south...
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