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Tsarevets
Hill is the most attractive place for the numerous visitors of the
town, because of its great historical importance. At the end of
the 2nd millennium B.C. a Thracian settlement was raised on its
slopes and on the banks along the bed of the Yantra River. During
the period between the 5th and the 6th centuries on the hills of
Tsarevets, Trapezitsa and Maiden's Fortress there had been built
the first fortified town. And in the 12th century its ruins on the
Tsarevets Hill had become foundations of the medieval citadel.
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During
1185 - 1393 Veliko Tarnovo was the capital of the Second Bulgarian
Kingdom. In 1185 when the town was proclaimed for the capital of
the Bulgaria, the Byzantine chronicler Nikita Honiat had praised
it as "the most beautiful town among all the towns along the
Hemus". For more than 200 years it had been glorified in the
European royal circles as "the third town after Rome and the
second after Constantinople ".
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