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Church of the Forty Martyrs at Tarnovo
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The Church of the Forty Martyrs was built by John Asen II to celebrate his victory over Theodore Komnenos Doukas at Klokotnica in 1230. It contains a Greek inscription of Omurtag and a Slavic inscription of John Asen II. It perhaps has the tomb of St. Sava of Serbia, who died in Tarnovo in 1251. 

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Map of Tarnovo

Sources

Byzantine Architecture by Cyril Mango

Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium edited by Alexander Kazhdan

Resources

Veliko Tarnovo Album (Byzantine Legacy Flickr)

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