ancient ruins
Madara Rider
A UNESCO-listed 8th-century relief carved 23 metres up a cliff face near Shumen, with a visitor car park and stepped approach.
40 km · about 45 min drive
Razgrad, Bulgaria · Europe
Samuil sits on the route: 30 minutes from Venets, 40km from Madara Rider.
Samuil is a town located in Razgrad, Bulgaria. With a population of 2,283, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Samuil sits in Bulgaria, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Sofia time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Samuil to your route.
Samuil (Bulgarian: Самуил [sɐmuˈiɫ]; Turkish: Işıklar) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Razgrad Province, located in the geographic region of Ludogorie. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Samuil Municipality, which lies in the southeastern part of the Province. As of December 2009, theRead more
village has a population of 1,543 inhabitants.
Samuil lies among the Samuil Heights in the Ludogorie Plateau, near the second highest hill in the Danubian Plain (501 metres). The population consists of Bulgarians, Turks and Romani. The area was inhabited by the Getae and the Romans in Antiquity and by the Slavs and Bulgars in the Middle Ages. It was part of the First Bulgarian Empire and the Second Bulgarian Empire, but fell under Ottoman rule as early as 1388. The construction of Baron Hirsch's Rousse-Kaspichan-Varna railway line in 1867-1868 turned the small village of Ishiklar into a railway station of local importance, with the first settlers being Greek merchants and harvesters. After the Liberation of Bulgaria, many Bulgarians settled in the village, which was renamed to Gara Samuil ("Samuil Station") and then to Samuil in honour of the medieval tsar Samuil of Bulgaria.
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Samuil is located in Razgrad, Bulgaria, Europe. The coordinates are 43.5167 latitude, 26.7500 longitude.
Samuil has a population of approximately 2,283 people, making it a town in Bulgaria.
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ancient ruins
A UNESCO-listed 8th-century relief carved 23 metres up a cliff face near Shumen, with a visitor car park and stepped approach.
40 km · about 45 min drive
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