The monument is devoted to the origins of the Bulgarian state and presents the most important events in the history of the country from the 6th to the 10th century. It was built on a plateau in the highest part of the Danube plain, at an altitude of 500 m. The structure consists of eight concrete blocks that are divided into two parts .
You can see the figures of Bulgarian rulers, incl. Asparucha, Tervel, Krum the Conqueror and Simeon the Great. They are accompanied by statues of distinguished warriors and aristocrats. There are mosaics on the walls of the blocks. An interesting fact is the three types of writing found here: runes used by the Pre-Bulgarians, Glagolitic, the oldest Slavic script, and Cyrillic.
The monument was unveiled in 1981 to commemorate the 1,300-year anniversary of the founding of the first Bulgarian state. It was built in a cubist style according to the design of Bulgarian sculptors Krum Damyanov and Ivan Slavov.
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