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🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Ovcharovo Tell — Targovishte Ritual House Tell

Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (5700–4300 BCE) · Karanovo II–VI → Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa

Ritual house tell 5700 BCE — plaster floor with 13 inhumations (Todorova).

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient village

Provadia-Solnitsata Salt Complex

Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Hamangia / Varna

Chalcolithic fortified salt-production centre (c. 5500–4200 BCE), Europe's oldest salt works and fortified settlement, with massive stone walls 3 m thick, brine evaporation installations and tumulus…

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder

Stara Zagora

city in Stara Zagora municipality, Stara Zagora oblast, Bulgaria

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder

Veliki Preslav

city in Veliki Preslav municipality, Shumen oblast, Bulgaria

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder

Pistiros

ancient Greek trade center in Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Koprivec Tell

Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA

Koprivec Tell — buried prehistoric tell/village at Ruse Province.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Provadia-Solnitsata (The Salt Pit) — Eneolithic Salt Production Tell

Late Neolithic through Late Chalcolithic (5500–4200 BCE) · Hamangia → Varna → KGK VI (Kodžadermen-Gumelnița-Karanovo VI)

Provadia-Solnitsata (The Salt Pit) — Eneolithic Salt Production Tell is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Varna Province, Provadia District, Provadiyska River valley, Bulgaria — Oldest…

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Temple complex

Dzhumaya Mosque

The Dzhumaya Mosque (Bulgarian: Джумая джамия, lit. 'Ulu Dzhumaya Mosque'; Turkish: Hüdavendigâr Camii or Cuma Camii), also known as the Friday Mosque, is a mosque located in Plovdiv, in the Plovdiv…

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder

Varna Necropolis – Chalcolithic Gold Cemetery

Chalcolithic (Copper Age Gumelniţa/Kodzhadermen–Gumelnitsa–Karanovo VI) · Varna culture (Late Copper Age Balkan)

4600 BCE cemetery with 6.5 kg gold—world's earliest large stratified gold treasure (Grave 43 penis sheath).

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Hydraulic works

Seuthopolis Reservoir Embankment East — Southern Extension

Hellenistic (400-200 BCE) · Thracian

Seuthopolis Reservoir Embankment East — Southern Extension in Kazanlak, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria is a Hellenistic (400-200 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Thracian.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Hydraulic works

Seuthopolis Reservoir Embankment East — Northern Annex

Hellenistic (400-200 BCE) · Thracian

Seuthopolis Reservoir Embankment East — Northern Annex in Kazanlak, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria is a Hellenistic (400-200 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Thracian.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Hydraulic works

Seuthopolis Reservoir Embankment East — Western Terrace

Hellenistic (400-200 BCE) · Thracian

Seuthopolis Reservoir Embankment East — Western Terrace in Kazanlak, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria is a Hellenistic (400-200 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Thracian.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Polyanitsa Platoto

Late Chalcolithic (c.4500–4200 BCE); KGK VI complex (Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI) · KGK VI Chalcolithic (Balkan Late Copper Age) Ludogorie facies

Ludogorie Chalcolithic fortified tell (c.4500–4200 BCE) with KGK VI burnt horizons and double ditch — Todorova.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder

Euxinograd

Euxinograd (Bulgarian: Евксиноград [ɛfˈksinoɡrat], also transliterated as Evksinograd) is a late 19th-century Bulgarian former royal summer palace and park on the Black Sea coast, 8 kilometres (5.0…

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Hotnitsa Tell (Hotnica)

Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Karanovo → Gumelnița–Varna) · Boian → Gumelnița–Karanovo VI–Varna

Fortified Chalcolithic tell (c.4500–4000 BCE, Gumelnița-Karanovo VI–Varna complex, + Early Neolithic base c.6000 BCE) near Hotnitsa waterfall (Kaya Bunar cascade 30 m) on Yantra terrace.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Submerged site

Apollonia Pontica (Sozopol) – Submerged Necropolis & Anchorage

Archaic to Late Antiquity (610 BCE – 6th c. CE) · Milesian Greek / Thracian / Roman / Byzantine

610 BCE Milesian colony whose harbours are now –6 m and linked to the vanished island Kianida of Ptolemy's map.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Durankulak Tell South Settlement

Eneolithic to Early Bronze (5000–2800 BCE) · Hamangia → Gumelnița → Ezero (EBA)

Durankulak Tell South Settlement is the south lakeside extension on Lake Durankulak — a Hamangia–Gumelnița tell (5000 BCE) with a 1200-grave flat cemetery, the largest Eneolithic necropolis on the…

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Submerged site

Nessebar (Mesembria) – Drowned Peninsula

Thracian to Ottoman (6th c. BCE – 1453+) · Thracian / Megarian Greek / Roman / Byzantine / Bulgarian / Ottoman

610 BCE Megarian peninsula city whose western fortifications now lie 4 m underwater.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Necropolis

Varna Lake — North Necropolis West Bank Sector

Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic

Varna Lake — North Necropolis West Bank Sector in Varna Province, Varna Lake, Bulgaria is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (4500–2000 BCE) necropolis attribu…

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Buried city

Colluvial Covered Settlement North

Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval

Colluvial Covered Settlement North in Thracian Plain, Bulgaria is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) buried city attributed to Medieval culture.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Cave

Kozarnika Cave

Early to Late Pleistocene · Oldowan / Mousterian / Kozarnikian

Palaeolithic cave in northwest Bulgaria with 1.6 million year sequence, yielding Early Pleistocene lithics, Homo erectus remains, Middle Palaeolithic layers and Upper Palaeolithic Kozarnikian…

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Yunatsite Tell — Northern Terrace Variant

Late Chalcolithic · Karanovo VI / Gumelnița

Northern terrace of Yunatsite tell (c. 5000–4100 BCE), 12 m high mound with Chalcolithic destruction layers, copper metallurgy and fortification, extension of main tell showing violent end c.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder

Giridava

Giridava (Giridaua, Geridava) was a Dacian town, situated in Moesia, modern northern Bulgaria.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Temple complex

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo

UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ruse Province, Bulgaria