Gradeshnitsa
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Gradeshnitsa is a village of the Vratsa Province
, Bulgaria
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The village is notable for the Gradeshnitsa monastery (situated 1.5 km west of the village), and for the neolithic Gradeshnitsa tablets
now kept in Vratsa
museum.
Vratsa Province
Vratsa Province , former name Vratsa okrug) is a Bulgarian province located in the northwestern part of the country, between Danube river in the north and Stara Planina mountain in the south. It is named after its main town - Vratsa...
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
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The village is notable for the Gradeshnitsa monastery (situated 1.5 km west of the village), and for the neolithic Gradeshnitsa tablets
Gradeshnitsa tablets
The Gradeshnitsa tablets , unearthed in 1969 in north-western Bulgaria , are, along with the Tărtăria tablets, an important testimony of late neolithic proto-writing known as the Vinča signs. The tablets are dated to the 5th millennium BC and are currently preserved in the Vratsa Archeological...
now kept in Vratsa
Vratsa
Vratsa is a city in northwestern Bulgaria, at the foothills of the Balkan Mountains. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Vratsa Province. As of February 2011, the town has a population of 60,482 inhabitants....
museum.