Klyuch
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Klyuch (
Medieval Greek: Κλειδίον, Kleidion, Latin: Clidium) is a village in south-westernmost Bulgaria, part of Petrich Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province
. It lies 455 metres above sea level. As of 2005, it has a population of 1,113 and the mayor is Hristo Markov.
Klyuch lies at the northern foot of the
Strumeshnitsa River, in the geographic region of Podgorie. The climate is transitional Mediterranean
, with a summer minimum and a winter maximum of precipitation.
The village is famous for the
Byzantine Emperor Basil II
's army. After the battle, Basil ordered all 14,000 Bulgarian captives blinded, with a single soldier left one-eyed to guide every hundred blinded home.
Five kilometres north of the village are the ruins of Samuil's Fortress, built between 1009 and 1013, and the Samuil's Fortress National Park-Museum, created in 1982 and featuring a bronze monument to Samuil.
Klyuch is also famous for several alleged cases of
Arda Kardzhali
.
References
- ^ "ЛОВЕЦЪТ НА НЛО КИРИЛ ЯКИМОВ: СЛЕД ПОТОПИТЕ ИДВАТ РАЗРУШИТЕЛНИ ЗЕМЕТРЕСЕНИЯ" (in Bulgarian). 11 August 2005. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ^ "СВЕТОВНИЯТ ДЕН НА НЛО" (in Bulgarian). 3 July 2006. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
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