| Madara Horseman jpg[300×200] to talk you about the Madara Rider Madara Horseman early medieval large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria near the village of Madara The relief depicts a majestic horseman 23 m above ground level in an almost vertical 100 metre high cliff The horseman facing right is thrusting a spear into a lion lying at his horse s Publishing origin | |
| madara horseman stairway j[458×381] a court proto Bulgarian pagan sanctuary small churches and monasteries A staircase with 386 stairs cut in the rock goes up to the Madara plateau and to the fortress The Madara Horseman has always been enveloped in mystic even as early as the proto Bulgarians sacrificed oblational animals on the altar below Most likely is the name Publishing origin | |
| Madara Rider Bulgaria jpg[185×125] Madara was the principal sacred place of the First Bulgarian Empire before Bulgaria s conversion to Christianity in the 9th century The inscriptions beside the sculpture tell of events that Publishing origin | |
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| thracian hero madara rider[355×259] is the Hero s new name You can see images of St George on a horse slaying a dragon all over Bulgaria Here s the evolution of the Thracian Hero over the centuries The Thracian Horseman The Madara Rider Publishing origin |