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were ordered destroyed. Later, a lion escaped from its cage and terrorized the city. However, a fearless young man named Mavrud (now the name of a wine grape) confronted and slew the lion. The king summoned Mavrud's mother to learn the source of such courage. She said she had secretly saved a vine,
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of the Mavrud wine like to repeat in order to explain the restoration of this locality as wine-growing country was that during the reign of
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made wine, and that this was the source of Mavrud's bravery. Khan Krum ordered the vineyards replanted.
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