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Antiquity: Thracians, Greeks, Romans

Virgin Mary

Life dates unknown

Where you meet Virgin Mary

Cut-out detail; background removed. Open book with a writing figure on the left and a red heading below two birds on the right. A later copy according to the Commons description. — Shakko · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Its sides show Christ and Mary, Jesus’s mother.

Scene 3 · Simeon and the Golden Age

Hrelio's tower today with its later front addition; an isolated photographic detail. — Explorer1940 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The main church, dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin, and the residential wings shape the courtyard we see today.

Scene 6 · Rila Monastery

The modern Shipka monument isolated from the photograph; not an image of the battle in 1877. — Ivano Giambattista · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

One side bears the Mother of God, the other Cyril and Methodius.

Scene 3 · Shipka

Extracted mural fragment with a royal donor; not a portable icon. Losses are preserved. — A. Nikolov · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

There is a royal portrait in the Church of the Holy Mother of God.

Scene 3 · Ivanovo rock-hewn churches

People nearby

Simeon and the Golden Age Rila Monastery Shipka

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Unknown painter; Asia (photograph) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. Icon · 7th century · later depiction · detail