Site Represents a site. Contact gk64@st-andrews.ac.uk Status public Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Place The town or city 3703 Kraydunavski, Vidin, Bulgaria Condition 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Baba Vida Fortress Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived isfiveoneonezero Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource gk64 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 294 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,43.9932,22.8865; Description An account of the resource Baba Vida is a medieval fortress in the town of Vidin in the northwestern part of Bulgaria and it is the town's proudest landmark. It consists of two concentric curtain walls and about nine towers of which three are preserved to their full medieval height, including the original battlements, and is said to be the only entirely preserved medieval castle in the country. Baba Vida was Vidin's main defensive installation during the Middle Ages and was also the most important defensive point of the nortwestern Bulgaria. It withstood an eight-month-long siege by Byzantine forces in 1356. Today, Baba Vida castle functions as a museum. Being a popular tourist attraction, the fortress is being kept in repair. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 17/05/2021 Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Subject The topic of the resource Culture,Immovable Culture Heritage,Tourism Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Vida Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Baba Vida Fortress Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT