Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
Plovdiv is Bulgaria's second-largest city, located on the Maritsa River in the south-central part of the country on the Thracian plain. Philip II of Macedonia conquered the original Thracian settlement in the fourth century BCE. In 46 CE it became the capital of the Roman Thracian province. After the Romans, it changed hands often, until the Turks took it over in 1364. In 1878 it became the capital of Turkish Eastern Rumelia, which became part of Bulgarian in 1885. It acquired its present name after World War I. Today its historic remains include some parts of Roman walls and the ruins of a medieval fort. It is a busy market and industrial city, the main economic activities of which include food processing, and carpet, textile, and machinery manufacture. The 2003 estimated population was 338,200.
- HMML ID
- 283464762728
- PURL
- LC name
- Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
- HMML name
- Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
- Library of Congress
- VIAF
- Getty
Variants
- Filiba
- Filibe
- Filipopol
- Filipopul
- Filippopol
- Filippopoli
- Philippopolis
- Philippoupolis
- Pinople
- Plodin
Place information
- Descriptor
- City
- Within places
- Geocoordinates
- 42.15, 24.75
General notes
- Description
- Description quoted from Getty Geographic Names
- Citations
- "Plovdiv (inhabited place)," Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online, accessed June 7, 2021, http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010666.
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Change notes
- Date added
- 2021-06-07
- Last edited
- 2021-11-30