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Fortress centre commercial les 4 temps Mneakos or as name and refracted in Bulgarian centre commercial les 4 temps language centre commercial les 4 temps Monyak, is perhaps one of the most romantic location as, and offering stunning views of the old bed of the river. centre commercial les 4 temps Arda now flooded by dam Cold kladenets.S good preservation of the ruins and with the location of a hu ... ahhh ... throw of Kardzhali, in a skillful and intelligent socialization, restoration and operation, centre commercial les 4 temps this "resource" centre commercial les 4 temps can become a great place for recreation and tourism, cultivate pride and patriotism in children, led by their parents on a picnic or a walk to remember and jobs for people centre commercial les 4 temps battered by life of this amazing Rhodope region ....
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Castle falls into the possession of the archaeologist Nikolai Ovcharov ... his sites are all strongholds and sanctuaries for which you remember around Kardzhaliysko.Zatova and our main source and guiding light in this publication will be his monograph "Mneakos - Regional Center in Ahridos XII - XIV century. "
According to Nikolai Ovcharov, the largest city of Ahridos in XII-XIV c. And administrative center of the area was the stronghold centre commercial les 4 temps Mneakos. / 1 / .Neynata location is accepted that it is in the valley of Arda average, 5 km east of the town. Kardzhali over with today. Wide field.
Ovcharov assertion that Mneakos was the administrative center of Ahridos actually not evidenced in any historical sources, but it rests on assumptions based on the situation in the vast and fertile valley of Arda, which today is occupied by the waters of the dam. "Cold water well ". According to the earliest archaeological crawls the entire bottom of the lake is covered with the remains of ancient and medieval unfortified settlements. / 2 /.
In the case of Visegrad castle rather centre commercial les 4 temps it is a fortified residence centre commercial les 4 temps of the governor delivered outside the walls of the fortified town, but close enough to him so that in the event of any undesirable event can hide inside with his family and his retinue .
Along with Perperikon Mneakos is best represented centre commercial les 4 temps in the sources stronghold in the Eastern Rhodopes. Such a conclusion is quite relative, given that in its original form of the Greek name occurs only once. It's about "History" George Acropolit, describing the Byzantine-Bulgarian War of 1254-1255, the loser at the beginning of his reign its southern territories young Bulgarian king Michael II Asen march for their Conquest. We have already mentioned about this spring, but maybe right here to give up the whole passage, because it best describes the situation in Central and Eastern Rhodopes in the XIII century:
..... As were seized Stenimahos (Assen's Fortress Asenovgrad -b.a.) Perushtitza Krichim Tsepina and everything in Ahridos than Mneakos, which was only preserved by the Byzantines. Obliged to Bulgarians and Ustra Perperikon Krivus and situated near Adrianople city called centre commercial les 4 temps Ephraim. "/ 3 /
Unlike centre commercial les 4 temps Perperikon however, Mneakos is not made in a Greek source, referring centre commercial les 4 temps to the first decade of the XIII century. It is about the dramatic events Bulgarian-Latin Wars in 1205-1207, the perfectly described by French chronicler Geoffroy centre commercial les 4 temps de Villehardouin. Tsar Kaloyan defeated the Crusaders in a number of decisive battles of Adrianople, Serres, Philipopol, Roussilon. Only in 1206 bratyt of captured at the Battle centre commercial les 4 temps of AZndrianopol first Latin emperor centre commercial les 4 temps Baudouin Henry managed to collect troops and to attack the bases of the Bulgarians in the Eastern Rhodopes centre commercial les 4 temps / 4 /
Geoffroy de Villehardouin is extremely detailed in its statement. With all his army Regent Henri ride along