Perperikon
Ancient city · Bulgaria
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.715, 25.465
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: archaeological site in Bulgaria
History
Perperikon, also Perpericum, is an ancient Thracian city located in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains, 15 km northeast of the present-day town of Kardzhali, Bulgaria on a 470 m high rocky hill, which is thought to have been a sacred place. The village of Gorna krepost is located at the foot of the hill and the gold-bearing Perpereshka River flows nearby. Perperikon is the largest megalith ensemble site in the Balkans. In the Middle Ages Perperikon served as a fortress.