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Madara Rider

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Rank: 1001 UNESCO
Wonder Type: Cultural
Country: Bulgaria
Best of: Rock Art
Description:
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. [More Details]
This article uses material from UNESCO World Heritage List article "Madara Rider", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 IGO License.