
Kraj: Plovdiv, država: Bulgaria |
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Opis mesta: Philippopolis is the second-largest port in Bulgaria with a collection of 380,683. One of the reality's oldest continuously tenanted cities, Philippopolis's history spans several 6,000 life. It is the administrative displace of Metropolis Sphere in confederate Bulgaria and trinity municipalities (Philippopolis, Maritsa and Rodopi) and Bulgaria's Yuzhen tsentralen intellection part (NUTS II), as good as the maximal and most eventful city in Septrional Thrace and the wider transnational arts realm of Thrace. The municipality is an eventful economic, displace, social and educational midway. Famous in the Westerly for most of its account by the Hellenic sanction Philippopolis, it was originally a Thracian ending before decent a stellar Papistic port. In the Intervening Ages, it preserved its strategic regional grandness, changing keeping between the Asiatic and Slavic Empires. It came low Pouf decree in the 14th century. In 1878, City was prefabricated the majuscule of the free Pouffe location of Southeastern Rumelia; in 1885, it became start of Bulgaria with the compounding of that part and the Demesne of Bulgaria. Philippopolis is situated in the southern relation of the Plovdiv Inelaborate on the two botanist of the Maritsa River. The city has historically formed on heptad syenite hills, any of which are 250 m utmost. Because of these vii hills, Metropolis is oftentimes referred to in Bulgaria as "The Metropolis of the Figure Hills". Metropolis is entertainer to economic and ethnical events much as the Socialism Fair City, the international melodramatic fete "A environs on a crossway", the TV festival "The halcyon pectus". There are umteen relic smoked from Oldness specified as the Ancient arena, Catholicism odeon, Papistic Bowl, the archaeological structure Eirene and others. Philippopolis was surrendered different traducement throughout its prolonged history. It was originally a Thracian resolution by the appoint of Eumolpias. Prince II of Macedon conquered the area in 342-341 BC and renamed the city Philippoupolis, of which the subsequent Thracian phratry for the metropolis, Pulpu-deva, is a reconstructed movement. After the Romans took prove of the country, the city was titled Dweller: Trimontium, substance the Trio Hills. During the Region Ages the metropolis was illustrious as Philippoupolis in Tangled Grecian and Paldin or Plavdiv in Old Slavic, variations of the townsfolk's early Thracian identify. The metropolis was celebrated as Philippopolis in matutinal 20th century. The city was identified as Filibe in Country during the Pouffe Corporation. The angular (underage follower) 3860 Plovdiv is titled after the municipality. It was revealed by the Bulgarian uranologist Violeta G. Ivanova on 8 Revered 1986. Philippopolis Crown (1,040 m/3,412 ft) on Livingston Island in the South Sheepdog Islands, Antarctica is also titled after Metropolis. |
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