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More than two thousand years ago, Spartacus led the largest slave uprising in ancient Rome. In his honor, mass sporting competitions in the USSR were called Spartakiads starting in 1928.
Scholars digging into ancient sources found a passage in Plutarch’s writings that says Spartacus belonged to the Maedi, a tribe that lived along the middle course of the Struma River.
That places Spartacus’s homeland in the southwestern part of modern-day Bulgaria.
