Fortress Trayanovi Vrata
Type: Fortress
Location: Town Kostenets »
In Bulgarian: Крепост Траянови врата »
Trayanovi Vrata (Trayan’s Gates) is a historical area and a small fortress (nowadays in ruins) over the hill between the Mt. Eledzhik and Mt. Golak of Sredna Gora, under which today is built the only tunnel on Trakia motorway. This historical place can be visited by small road crossing the old road Ihtiman - Kostenets (exit to Kostenets from Trakia Highway), after village of Mirovo.
The site was built in II century by the Roman Emperor Trajan as a symbolic boundary between the provinces of Thrace and Macedonia. At this place, close to the Thracian settlement, was constructed a Roman road station, called Sineum. From it the Trayan Pass begins, also called Souki narrow valley. Trayanovi Vrata fortress was 15 steps wide and 24 steps high.
In these area in 986 Samuil’s soldiers won an important victory over the Byzantines, led by Emperor Vasilii II, delaying by this the fall of Bulgaria under Byzantine domination with 22 years. A small memorial plate commemorates this event.
The site was built in II century by the Roman Emperor Trajan as a symbolic boundary between the provinces of Thrace and Macedonia. At this place, close to the Thracian settlement, was constructed a Roman road station, called Sineum. From it the Trayan Pass begins, also called Souki narrow valley. Trayanovi Vrata fortress was 15 steps wide and 24 steps high.
In these area in 986 Samuil’s soldiers won an important victory over the Byzantines, led by Emperor Vasilii II, delaying by this the fall of Bulgaria under Byzantine domination with 22 years. A small memorial plate commemorates this event.
