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Location:

  • Bulgaria, Venchan
  • geo:43.241962,27.375872
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • ante 300~ / post 1388

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=104537

Annotations

An Ancient (Thracian, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman), Late Antique, and Medieval fortress on a hill northwest of the modern settlement of Venčan (Венчан, also rendered less accurately but more commonly as Venchan). It overlooks a Roman road running in its immediate vicinity. It is poorly preserved, bur numismatic and ceramic remains date to the 5th-7th century and the 11th-14th century. The fortress is mentioned as Vefçan and Vençan in the narrative of the Ottoman conquest in 1388.

https://www.bulgariancastles.com/s-venchan-krepost-venchan/


Nearby

Provadia (6 km)

Byzantine fortress Provaton (Provat) - 5th century.

Vetrino II (6 km)

Bronze Age barrow necropolis II.

Goliamoto Bulo (7 km)

Goliamoto Bulo


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