The remains were discovered during excavations in 1965 in a basilica on an island in the border region between Greece and Albania. Bulgaria has long sought to repatriate the buried former tsar. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Rumen Radev confirmed that the handover will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece.
The memory of Tsar Samuel takes on a unifying meaning instead of a divisive one, Radev said, thanking his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis "for political courage."
Tsar Samuel is said to have died of shock when 15,000 soldiers in his army returned blind after losing a battle to the Byzantine Emperor Basil II - who ordered the losers to be blinded.
