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Madara Horseman
- 1. Хан Тервел – легендата за любовта (700-721г.)
- 2. If you look carefully at the Madara Horseman, you`ll see a deep gash that cuts it into two.
- 3. According to the legend, the Khan`s daughter was thrown from the rocks because of her love for the ordinary stonemason, who carved the horseman.
- 4. It`s considered that the carving had been created in the time of one of the greatest Bulgarian rulers – Khan Tervel.
- 5. In 705 Khan Tervel helps the Byzantine emperor to regain his throne and receives the second most important title in the Empire – Caesar. In 718 the Bulgarian ruler comes to rescue of the defeated Byzantines and routs the Arab troops near Konstantinople.
- 7. Likely the horseman is carved in honor of one of these great victories, and the inscription on the rock says so “The Emperor with me… won good”
- 8. The Hungarian adventurer Felix Kanitz is the first one who made a drawing of the horseman with pencil, and he is the first one to hear the legend. This legend had been clarified for centuries.
- 9. There were a lot of different legends about the rocks and the horseman among the locals.
- 10. According to one of them, a king who ruled Pliska fell from the rocks, while others argue that it was his daughter. Exactly that one passed through the centuries.