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Madara Rider

French: Cavalier de Madara
The Madara Rider is a World Heritage site in Bulgaria defined by the UNESCO in 1979 and definitely a recommended cultural sightseeing location.
It is on position 1067 (1023, 909) in our monthly survey..

"The Madara Rider, representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion, is carved into a 100-m-high cliff near the village of Madara in north-east Bulgaria. Madara was the principal sacred place of the First Bulgarian Empire before Bulgaria’s conversion to Christianity in the 9th century. The inscriptions beside the sculpture tell of events that occurred between AD 705 and 801."
Copyright © 1992 2014 UNESCO/World Heritage Centre. All rights reserved."

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