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... Erkesiya was an enormous earth ditch built in the 9th century to protect the country's southern border and spread for 150 km between the Maritsa river and the Black Sea?
... that the Icon of St Theodor (pictured) from Preslav is among the few ceramics icon ever found?
... that Ivailo who became Emperor of Bulgaria in 1277 and defeated the Tatars and the Byzantines was a swineherd?
... that Harald Hardråde, the founder of Norway's capital Oslo defeated the Bulgarian uprising under Peter Delyan and was called the "devastator of Bulgaria"?

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