The largest historical museum in Bulgaria has a new exhibition space dedicated to the Late Antiquity period - a time of significant political, economic and religious changes in the lands of modern-day Bulgaria. The period also saw the first migration of large masses of barbarian tribes which crossed the Lower Danube frontier of the Eastern Roman Empire and marked the first permanent settlement of Goths, Slavs, Avars and Proto-Bulgarians.
Photos: National Museum of History
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