HERITAGE RECORD · 043

Madara Rider

马达腊骑士崖雕

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

The Madara Rider, representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion, is carved into a 100-m-high cliff near the village of Madara in north-east Bulgaria. Madara was the principal sacred place of the First Bulgarian Empire before Bulgaria’s conversion to Christianity in the 9th century. The inscriptions beside the sculpture tell of events that occurred between AD 705 and 801.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ319296 ↗

Inception0710

Area1.2 ha

Administrative areaQ577936 · Q2219814 · Q184981

WikipediaMadara Rider ↗

Chinese Wikipedia马达拉骑士浮雕 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(i)A masterpiece of human creative genius.

(iii)A unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation.

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