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PMR-D6031 Oman, Salalah: mausoleum of An Nabi Ayub (Prophet Job). Keywords: Islam, Muslim, Arab state, Middle East, Gulf State, sultanate, Bible, Koran, patriarch
PMR063K-04 Bulgaria: Veliko Tarnovo, the first capital of Bulgaria from 1187. The site was previously used by the Thracians and then the Romans before the Bulgarians came, and is virtually surrounded by a loop of the River Yantra. The fortifications on Tsarevets Hill, built on Thracian/Byzantine foundations in the 12th and 13th centuries, showing the sole entrance through fortified gates to the hill-fortress, with the newly restored Patriarchal Church on the summit.
PMR062K-15 Bulgaria: Veliko Tarnovo, the first capital of Bulgaria from 1187. The site was previously used by the Thracians and then the Romans before the Bulgarians came, and is virtually surrounded by a loop of the River Yantra. The fortifications on Tsarevets Hill, built on Thracian/Byzantine foundations in the 12th and 13th centuries, with the recently rebuilt Patriarchal Church on the summit.
PMR062K-11 Bulgaria: Veliko Tarnovo, the first capital of Bulgaria from 1187. The site was previously used by the Thracians and then the Romans before the Bulgarians came, and is virtually surrounded by a loop of the River Yantra. Here, 13/14th century frescoes depicting the Patriarchs in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul.
PMR615-04 Bulgaria, Sofia: Sveta Nedelya Church, where 150 people died in 1925 when an assassin's bomb failed to kill Czar Boris III. Now a revered pilgrimage church and first patriarchal church of Sofia. Keywords: religious building, Othodox church, Bulgarian architecture
PMR612-01 Bulgaria: Veliko Tarnovo, situated on a rocky hill within a loop of the River Yantra, was the first capital of Bulgaria from 1187, after the foundation of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1393) by the Assen Brothers, Peter and Ivan. The site was previously occupied by the Thracians and then the Romans before the Bulgarians came in the 12 th century. Here: fortifications on Tsarevets Hill, with recently rebuilt Patriarchal Church on the summit. Keywords: historical site, archeological site, Bulgarian heritage, fortifications, battlements, defence towers, ruined fortifications, archeological excavations

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