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The Madara Rider is a large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau in northeastern Bulgaria. The relief depicts a majestic horseman 23 m above ground level in an almost vertical 100-metre-high cliff. The horseman is thrusting a spear into a lion lying at his horse’s feet. A dog runs after the horseman. The monument is usually attributed to the ancient Bulgars, a nomadic tribe of warriors which settled in northeastern Bulgaria at the end of the 7th century and after merging with the local Slavs gave origin to the modern Bulgarians. The monument is dated back to 710 and by looking at it you can really perceive the flowing of millennia.
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