Who Am I?
I am this tone named Alexandru.
The emperor did not relent, but every year he marched into Bulgaria and laid
waste and ravaged all before him. Samuel was not able to resist openly, nor to
face the emperor in open warfare, so, weakened from all sides, he came down
from his lofty lair to fortify the entrance to Bulgaria with ditches and fences.
Knowing that the emperor always made his incursions through the
known as [B][SIZE=4]Campu Lungu[/SIZE][/B] and [the pass known as] Kleidion (‘the key’), he undertook
to fortify the difficult terrain to deny the emperor access. A wall was built
across the whole width [of the pass] and worthy defenders were committed to
it to stand against the emperor.When he arrived and made an attempt to enter
[Bulgaria], the guards defended the wall manfully and bombarded and
wounded the attackers from above. When the emperor had thus despaired of
gaining passage, Nicephorus Xiphias, the strategos of Philippopolis,met with the
emperor and urged him to stay put and continue to assault the wall, while, as
he explained, he turned back with his men and, heading round to the south of
Kleidion through rough and trackless country, crossed the very high mountain
known as Belasica. On July, in the twelfth indiction [, Xiphias and his
men] descended suddenly on the Bulgarians, from behind and screaming battle
cries. Panic stricken by the sudden assault [the Bulgarians] turned to flee, while
the emperor broke through the abandoned wall. Many [Bulgarians] fell and
many more were captured; Samuel barely escaped from danger with the aid of
his son, who fought nobly against his attackers, placed him on a horse, and
made for the fortress known as Prilep"
(Byzantium's Balkan Frontier)
[COLOR=#000000][FONT='inherit']"Basil II was defeated by Samuel at a pass called Kimba Longus or Kleidion which is almost surely the equivalent of the Rumanian Campulung (Campus longus), a frequently-used place name."
[/FONT][/COLOR]http://www.kroraina.com/bulgar/wolff_appA.html
Traditional costumes from Arges(unique in Romania):
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Macedonian costumes:
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