雅典，9月29日——根据周二签署的一项协议，希腊将向保加利亚归还被认定为保加利亚中世纪统治者沙皇塞缪尔的遗骸，该协议还规定了在这两个巴尔干邻国之间转移其他历史和宗教文物。
ATHENS, Sept 29 - Greece will return to Bulgaria the remains identified as those of Bulgarian medieval ruler Tsar Samuel under an accord signed on Tuesday that also provides for the transfer of other historic and religious artefacts between the two Balkan neighbours.
保加利亚总理鲁门·拉德夫将该协议描述为“历史性协议”，并表示塞缪尔遗骸的归还结束了索非亚长达六十年的努力，这些遗骸于1965年在希腊被发现。
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev described the accord as a "historic agreement" and said the return of Samuel's remains ended six decades of efforts by Sofia to bring them home after their discovery in Greece in 1965.
- 塞缪尔（或萨缪尔）在第一保加利亚帝国时期于997年至1014年在位，因努力维护国家免受讲希腊语的邻国拜占庭帝国的侵略而被保加利亚人视为民族英雄。
• Samuel, or Samuil, reigned from 997 to 1014 during the First Bulgarian Empire and is deemed a national hero by Bulgarians for struggling to preserve his country's independence from the neighbouring, Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire.
- 希腊考古学家尼古拉奥斯·穆特索普洛斯在希腊北部普雷斯帕湖一个岛屿上的圣阿基利奥斯大教堂发掘中发现了塞缪尔的遗骸。近年来，这些遗骸一直保存在塞萨洛尼基的拜占庭文化博物馆。
• Greek archaeologist Nikolaos Moutsopoulos discovered Samuel's remains during excavations at the Basilica of Saint Achillios on an island in Prespa Lake in northern Greece. They had been stored in Thessaloniki's Museum of Byzantine Culture in recent years.
- 根据周二由希腊和保加利亚文化部长签署的谅解备忘录，雅典将接收近50件一战期间被转移到保加利亚的宗教圣物。
• Under the Memorandum of Understanding, signed on Tuesday by the culture ministers of Greece and Bulgaria, Athens will receive nearly 50 religious relics that were removed to Bulgaria during World War One.
- 保加利亚的拉德夫和希腊总理基里亚科斯·米佐塔基斯预计将于10月3日在希腊城市塞萨洛尼基的拜占庭文化博物馆出席塞缪尔遗骸移交的官方仪式。
• Bulgaria's Radev and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis are expected to attend an official ceremony for the handover of Samuel's remains on October 3 at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in the Greek city of Thessaloniki.