In 447 A.D., Huns burned the town of Serdica, which stood on the site of this present-day Bulgarian capital
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Serdica - Wikipedia  The history of Sofia, Bulgaria's capital and largest city, spans thousands of years from Antiquity to modern times, during which the city has been a commercial, ... The city was destroyed by the Huns in 447, but was rebuilt by Byzantine Emperor ... Bulgarian town during the time, as Sofia rose to become in 1444 the capital of...
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Western Gate of Ancient Serdica in Bulgaria's Capital Sofia under ...  Aug 26, 2016 ... The archaeological site of the Western Gate of the Ancient Roman city of Serdica, the predecessor of today's Bulgarian capital Sofia, is presently under restoration ... The present restoration began after earlier the recent preparatory excavations of Serdica's .... In 447 AD, the city was destroyed by the Huns.
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southwest bulgaria  Due to its geographical location, the territory of modern-day Bulgaria is among the earliest ... Even though repeatedly burned by Gothic military troops, Sostra survives until the end of .... In 447 AD, the town was destroyed by Attila's Huns. ... Abritus was built in the 1st century AD on the site of an ancient Thracian settlement.
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Sofia - Wikipedia  Website, www.sofia.bg. Sofia (/sofi/ or /sfi/ or /sofi/;) (Bulgarian: , Sofiya,pronounced [sfi, ..... The city was destroyed in the 447 invasion of the Huns and the city laid in ruins for a century It was ... After the conquest of the Bulgarian capital Preslav by Sviatoslav I of Kiev and John I Tzimiskes' armies in...
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Amphitheatre of Serdica - Topics  The amphitheatre was built in the 3rd4th century AD on top of a 2nd3rd century theatre ... an amphitheatre in the Ancient Roman city of Ulpia Serdica, now Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. ... in 2005 and 2006, the ruins of the amphitheatre lie on two adjacent sites in the centre of modern Sofia. .... 447 - Town burned by Huns.
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J! Archive - Show #4361, aired 2003-07-14  It's said that a werewolf can be killed with one of these ... Yeah, Hun, this king murdered his co-ruler (& brother) Bleda in 445 A.D....
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6 Infamous Sacks of Rome - History in the Headlines  Aug 24, 2015 ... The sack of Rome in 455 by the Vandals signaled the collapse of the ... tribesmen under the Visigoth King Alaric entered the city of Rome and ... and one of them, a group of Visigoths led by a king named Alaric, had ... Three days later, having stripped the city of all its valuables, they withdrew from Rome...
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Alexander the Great and the Burning of Persepolis (Article) - Ancient ...  Feb 23, 2011 ... When Alexander the Great arrived at Persepolis it was the jewel of Persia and, when he ... As for Persepolis, the capital of the Persian Empire, Alexander described it to the Macedonians as their worst enemy among ... She wanted to put a torch to the building herself in full view of Alexander, so that posterity...
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Terrifying ruler who will enjoy torturing his enemies and also his ...  A massive, well-preserved 1,700 year-old Roman mosaic was recently .... This site is the supposed burial place because in 1931 explorers dug up this site .... Vlad the Impaler, Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (14311476), also known by his .... one of her hands chopped off, decapitation and finally burning her body on a stake.
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jeopardy/2138_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  BAD NEWS | Residents of Montserrat were ordered to evacuate in 1997 when one of these began heating up | Volcano. right: Kurt. Wrong: ... Boadicea led a 1st century revolt against these foreigners whose legions occupied Britain | Romans.
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J! Archive - Show #3396, aired 1999-05-17  This Roman fell victim to assassins on the ides (or 15th) of March, 44 B.C. ... A hotel in Scandinavia is destroyed every spring & rebuilt every fall as it is made out...
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Game Show NewsNet  Feb 28, 2007 ... He fronts the level on this: one of these famously burned in Alexandria in 47 BC & also in Los Angeles in 1986. "What is a library?" Right for...
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Early and High Middle Ages - People and Events - Paradoxplace  -453. (47). King of the Huns from 434. Called "The Scourge of God" - All round ... night of his seventh wedding (yes wedding, not wedding anniversary) in 453 and ... Roman General and leader Orestes is defeated and executed by Odoacer (433 ... Justinian also had time to build "the Greatest Church in Christendom" (Santa...
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Avars - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Dec 17, 2014 ... Many of the so-called "barbarian" tribes mentioned by Roman ... Bayan I wanted to take the capital city of Sirmium but did not know the ... A dozen years later Bayan attacked Byzantine territory and seized the city of Sirmium on...
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Alexander the Great and the Burning of Persepolis (Article) - Ancient ...  Feb 23, 2011 ... In the year 330 BCE Alexander the Great conquered the Persian capital city of ... treasures, burned the great palace and surrounding city to the ground. ... Pasargadae) and began to house there the greatest treasures, literary ... known for generations only as `the place of the forty columns' for the remaining...
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Colosseum - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Nov 6, 2012 ... The Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheatre is a large ellipsoid arena built in the first century CE under the Roman emperors of the Flavian dynasty: Vespasian. ... Inside, the theatre must have been even more impressive when the three ... of spectators went for lunch), particularly the killing of Christian martyrs.
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The Huns - All Empires  Around 370 A.D. the Huns moved west and destroyed their neighboring Alans. ... In 434 he planned a massive invasion against the Eastern Roman Empire. ... The treaty dealt with Hun merchants' rights, military alliance conducts, the return of Hun ... but war resumed in 443 when the Romans still refused to pay tribute.
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How Jews (and not Christians) Started the Great Fire of Rome ...  Jan 8, 2015 ... Now most people have heard of the Great Fire of Rome of 64 AD and if ... that fire is completely indiscriminate and doesn't deliberately avoid parts of a city. ... asserts that it was Christians who were persecuted by Nero: (9) he also .... tutor and adviser, specifically blamed the jews for having started the fire.
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Great Fire of London - Wikipedia  The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall. ... It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the City's 80,000...
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Persecution in the Early Church: A Gallery of the Persecuting ...  From A.D. 30 to A.D. 311, a period in which 54 emperors ruled the Empire, only ... of people who had lost their homes in the Great Fire of Rome in 64. ... as a distinct, dissident group of Jews), and so, appropriately, he burned many of them alive. ... sung his own poem The Sack of Troy (he did not fiddle) while enjoying the...
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Andrei Fiodorov's Photos - Angelfire  Warsaw, the largest city and the capital of Poland, is located in central Poland, .... The eastern bank of the river is the site of the Old Town, founded in the 1200s, and the ... Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, has a population of around 1.1 million. ... The community was plundered and burned by the Huns around AD 447 and was...