They call Nikopol “the town of ages” because its history goes back thousands of years. It was founded as a settlement in the year 169 during the reign of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. In 629, theByzantine Emperor renamed the town to Nicopolis, meaning..
High above the road near the village of Krepcha in the region of the town of Targovishte, one can stop and see a rock-hewn monastery. Founded in the 9th-10th century, it is one of the earliest rock dwellings on the territory of Bulgaria . It was..
An inscription from the time of Bulgarian Tsar Simeon the Great (893 – 927) was discovered in the Medieval fortress Balak Dere near Huhla village in the Eastern Rhodopes. Experts say it is one of the earliest known texts in the Cyrillic..