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• Trapezitza hill rises on the opposite bank of the Yantra River. Here were the boyars' homes and some public buildings, churches above all. Seventeen of these have been unearthed. At the foot of the two hills, outside the fortress walls, several mediaeval churches from the Second Bulgarian Kingdom have been preserved: St. Dimiter of Salonika, Holy Forty Martyrs, Sts. Peter and Paul. • Between the 12th and the 14th century Sveta Gora Hill was the centre of Bulgaria's religious and cultural life. It is the Turnovo literary and painting school that has given the world the Manasses' Chronicle and King Ivan Alexan-der's Four Gospels. It exerted a significant and lasting influence throughout South-East Europe.