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Samuil's Fortress National Park-Museum
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National Tourist Site

Samuil's Fortress National Park-Museum

The site of the 1014 battle of Kleidion, where Tsar Samuil's defences in the Klyuch gorge were broken.

National Tourist Site

About Samuil's Fortress National Park-Museum

Samuil's Fortress is a medieval fortification between the Belasitsa and Ograzhden mountains, on a low hill above the Strumeshnitsa river about 5 km north of the village of Klyuch. It was probably built between 1009 and 1013, during the reign of Tsar Samuil, as part of a large system of walls closing the gorge.

In 1014 the Byzantine army of Emperor Basil II broke through here in the battle of Kleidion, one of the decisive events in the fall of the First Bulgarian Empire. The site is a national park-museum with a monument to Samuil.

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  • Samuil's Fortress National Park-Museum

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  1. 1 Blagoevgrad Regional History Museum and Varosha National Tourist Site
  2. 2 Church of Saints Theodore Tyro and Theodore Stratelates, Dobarsko National Tourist Site
  3. 3 Holy Trinity Church, Bansko National Tourist Site
  4. 4 Bansko House Museums and Icon Exhibition National Tourist Site
  5. 5 Vihren Peak National Tourist Site
  6. 6 Gotse Delchev Municipal History Museum National Tourist Site
  7. 7 Sandanski Episcopal Basilica and Archaeological Museum National Tourist Site
  8. 8 Rozhen Monastery National Tourist Site
  9. 9 Melnik History Museum and Kordopulov House National Tourist Site
  10. 10 Rupite: Church of St. Petka of Bulgaria National Tourist Site
  11. 11 Heraclea Sintica Ancient City National Tourist Site
  12. 12 Samuil's Fortress National Park-Museum National Tourist Site

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