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Madara
Madara is a village and archaeological site near Shumen in north-eastern Bulgaria. Its cliffs hold the Madara Rider relief and Greek inscriptions of the Bulgar khans, and the area was an important pagan sanctuary and fortified place of the First Bulgarian Empire, close to its capitals Pliska and Preslav.
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