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Location:

  • Bulgaria, Karanovo
  • geo:42.520947,25.913742
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 45~ / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=19306

Annotations

The Iztochna Mogila, one of the of Archaeological Complex near Karanovo is a Thracian Tomb discovered in 2008. It dates back to the first century AD. Tomb of Rhoemetalces III.

See:

  1. http://www.culturalprojects.org/l-en/press-info/p2-44-0.html
  2. https://www.ubb.bg/eng/lines-of-support/campaings/arheologicheskite-otkritija-v-karanovo
  3. https://rezervaciq.com/zabelejitelnosti/kompleks-iztochna-mogila-s-keranovo/943
  4. https://www.livius.org/pictures/bulgaria/karanovo/karanovo-tomb-of-rhoemetalces-iii-chariot-burial/

Probable tomb of Remetalcus III, the last king of Thrace; his assasination was used by the emperor Claudius to annex his kingdom.


Nearby

Кaranovo

Каменик, Early Neolithic settlement.

Thracian Tomb

Thracian Tomb


This object was added by Jona Lendering on 2014-09-11. Last update by Elżbieta on 2021-12-27. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/19306 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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