The territory of another Thracian people , the Getae, spread in the northeastern part of the present-day Bulgarian state. The remains of their capital, Helis

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, were discovered in the remarkable natural environment near the villages of Sveshtari and Sboryanovo. In immediate proximity there are more than 100 tumuli making up the royal necropolis of the ruler of Getae.
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The Thracian states emerged early, but they can be traced only after 5th – 4th century BC. The structures created before the names of the royal-priestly ruling dynasties: Bessi, Triballoi, Getae and Edonoi. According to Herodotus, the Thracians were the most numerous people in the world after the Indians, but they never managed to unite in one state. During the 5th – 4th century BC, the kingdom of the Odrysae stretching in the lands between the Black Sea, the Danube and the Rhodope Mountains became most powerful. The ruins of its capital Seuthopolis are near the present-day town of Kazanluk.

The most famous kings of the Odrysae were Teres (490-464 BC) and Sitalkes (464-424 BC), who were among the prominent historical figures of their time. The important archaelogical discoveries made near the village of Starosel, Kazanluk area, are associated precisely with them. A peculiar temple-tomb was found there in an enormous mound, possibly intended for King Sitalkes.
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Two other important Thracian megalithic sanctuaries have been discovered near the rock city of Perperikon. On of them is the temple of the Great Goddess-Mother, located high in the mountains. This is natural horizontal cave, 22 m long, with south-north orientation, additionally shaped by the human tools. The cave was cut in the shape of a gigantic womb. A semicircular altar niche that represents the symbolic uterus is cut from the north.
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Wrong Turn 3 hd The early temple in the palace-sanctuary was the spiritual centre of the rock city that was hewn during the Late Bronze Age and functioned until the end of the pagan period. It represents a roughly cut oval hall without roof. A grandiose round altar (which you can see at the left), burnt by the numerous fires, rises in its northern part, above the floor. Near it there is the quadrangular stone platform for the rites performed by the priests. The sanctuary ceased to exist in the 5th century, when the Christians piled earth over it.

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Already Herodotus informed about one of the principal temples of the Antiquity, allegedly found in the Rhodope Mountains and devoted to the gloomy Thracian Dionysos who preceded the appearance of the merry Greek deity. According to the historian, there was a sanctuary with a priestess who gave prophesies like the famous oracle of Apollo in Delphi A Few Good Men rip

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The rock city of Perperikon at a distance of 20 km from today’s regional centre Kurdjali is a centre of the megalithic culture in the Rhodope region. The place was deified by the people already during the Chalcolithic Age (fifth – foruth millennium BC).The first constructions hewn into the rocks appeared already during the Late Bronze Age (18th – 11th century BC): niches oriented to the Sun, stone altars, basins for crushing the grapes and for making sacred wine.
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The Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age were already periods about which mankind has memories. These were the heroic times of the Trojan War described by the great Homer in the 8th – 7th century BC. The Iliad Dune ipod narrates about the Thracians and their leaders, who lived in the present-day Bulgarian lands and fought bravely under the walls of Troy together with the Greek heroes.
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