Medieval Thrace

The most sensible option is to end time change in 2020, MEP Momchil Nekov, S&D group, said to reporters. He noted that the European Commission's proposal was 2019, while Austria was proposing 2021. "The important thing is to have the Bulgarian position so as to have a clear mandate to defend in the European Parliament," Nekov said, quoted by Focus News Agency.

A metal child's bracelet from the 11th-12th century with a stamp depicting the Virgin Mary - or the Holy Mother of God, as she is known in Eastern Orthodox Christianity - has been discovered by archaeologists during the excavations of the medieval Momchil's Fortress near Smolyan in Southern Bulgaria.

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The truest remnant of Gothic style in Greece is at Nea Chalcedon, near Thessaloniki. The Medieval graveyard of St. Eleoussa church, contains stone Gothic crosses marked with a circle created by the Bogomils, who belonged to a dualist religiopolitical sect that was evident in the Balkans from the 10th-15th centuries.