A 1983 study of the Neutzikon Fortress Hollywood Homicide hd near the village of Mezek discovered unknown elements of its plan and corrected its dating. Its walls, surrounding an area of seven decares, were built from shattered stones soldered with white plaster. On the front side of the walls are three panels made up of four rows of bricks used for decorative purposes, which therefore do not cover the whole length of the wall, unlike in the earlier fortresses. The fortress is most inaccessible from the north due to the steep incline and, because of that, the wall there has the smallest thickness, 1.9m, and is reinforced with only one tower. The weak spot of the fortress is the southern wall because of the leveled terrain in front of it. Its thickness is 2.6m and it is reinforced with five towers. The thickness of the eastern and the western walls is 2.3m and they are reinforced, respectively, with one and two towers. The main entrance of the fortress is situated in a turn of the western wall. It is set up in a way that the attackers fall into a trap on a small platform that is being shot with arrows from two sides. The approach to the entrance passes along the whole length of the western fortress wall. Attackers were forced to move towards the entrance with their right-hand side turned and unprotected by a shield against the defenders of the fortress, who were firing arrows at them.
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Last week i have a work travel to the city of Svilengrad, South Eastern Bulgaria, and when my intentions was to leave and get back to Haskovo i saw a road sign which point to the ancient Trachian Tomb of Mezek. I was not wondering what to do at all, i have just turned left to the road and started to approach this interesting place.In the region of Svilengrad were discovered numerous traces from Tharcian settlements, tumuli and sanctuaries, amongst which the most valuable and best preserved one is the monumental tomb close to the village of Mezek. It is situated in the vicinity of the remains of an impressive Medieval fortress built in the 11thc.

The tomb near the village of Mezek was the biggest domed tomb in Thrace, meant obviously for some master. It was built in the 4th c. BC, and was covered like all Thracian tombs with an enormous mound.
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