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Upper Thracian Plain
Plovdiv

Plovdiv

Plovdiv is a city in Central-South , the second-largest in the country and one of the oldest cities in . Due to the remnants of its colourful past, it's one of the most popular tourist destinations in Bulgaria.
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  • Type: City with 369,000 residents
  • Description: city in Plovdiv municipality, Plovdiv oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Eumolpias”, “Filiba”, “Filibe”, “Filipopol”, “Filippopol”, “Flavia”, “Julia”, “Philippopel”, “Philippopoli”, “Philippopolis”, “Pinople”, “Plodin”, “Ploudin”, “Plovdin”, “Poulpoudeva”, “Sinople”, “Trimontium”, “Ulpia”, and “Vinipoppolis”
  • Postal code: 4000
Photo: Mmcs, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roman theatre of Philippopolis and Ethnographic Museum.

Theater building
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is one of the world's best-preserved ancient Roman theatres, located in the city center of modern Plovdiv, , once the ancient city of Philippopolis.

Museum
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The Plovdiv Regional is a museum of ethnography in Plovdiv, . Since 1938, it has occupied the 1847 house of the merchant, Argir Kuyumdzhioglu, in the city's Old Town.

Mosque
Photo: John Burkov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Dzhumaya Mosque, also known as the Friday Mosque, is a located in Plovdiv, in the of . Located in the centre of Plovdiv, the mosque was built in 1363–1364 on the site of the Sveta Petka Tarnovska Cathedral Church after the conquest of Plovdiv by the Ottoman army.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Plovdiv and Stolipinovo.

Suburb
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The old town in Plovdiv is an architectural and historical reserve located on three of Plovdiv's hills: , Dzhambaz Tepe and Taksim Tepe. The complex has been formed as a result of the long sequence of habitation from prehistoric times to present day and combines the culture and architecture from Antiquity, Middle Ages and Bulgarian revival.

Suburb
is a district of the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv and the most populous predominantly Romani-inhabited district on the with a population of about 20,000 people.

Suburb
is a Roma ghetto in Plovdiv, dating to 1400s. With a population of 8,000, residents generally regard themselves as being of the Turkish ethnicity.

Plovdiv

Latitude
42.1419° or 42° 8′ 31″ north
Longitude
24.7499° or 24° 44′ 60″ east
Population
369,000
Elevation
163 metres (535 feet)
IATA airport code
PDV
United Nations Location Code
BG PDV
Open location code
8GJ64PRX+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1698668366
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
728193
Wiki­data ID
Q459
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Plovdiv” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلوفديف”
  • Arabic: “فِيلِبّة”
  • Aragonese: “Plovdiv”
  • Armenian: “Պլովդիվ”
  • Asturian: “Plovdiv”
  • Azerbaijani: “Plovdiv”
  • Bashkir: “Пловдив”
  • Basque: “Plovdiv”
  • Belarusian: “Плоўдзіў”
  • Bengali: “প্লোভদিভ”
  • Breton: “Plovdiv”
  • Bulgarian: “ГР.ПЛОВДИВ”
  • Bulgarian: “Пловдив”
  • Bulgarian: “Филибе”
  • Bulgarian: “Филипополис”
  • Catalan: “Plóvdiv”
  • Catalan: “Plòvdiv”
  • Cebuano: “Plovdiv”
  • Central Bikol: “Plovdiv”
  • Central Kurdish: “پلۆڤدیڤ”
  • Chechen: “Пловдив”
  • Chinese: “普洛夫迪夫”
  • Chinese: “普罗夫迪夫”
  • Chinese: “普羅夫迪夫”
  • Church Slavic: “Фїлїппополь”
  • Chuvash: “Пловдив”
  • Croatian: “Plovdiv”
  • Czech: “Plovdiv”
  • Danish: “Plovdiv”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Plovdiv”
  • Dutch: “Plodviv”
  • Dutch: “Plovdiv”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پلوڤديڤ”
  • Esperanto: “Plovdiv”
  • Estonian: “Plovdiv”
  • Finnish: “Plovdiv”
  • French: “Plodviv”
  • French: “Plovdiv”
  • Galician: “Plovdiv”
  • Georgian: “პლოვდივი”
  • German: “Philippoupolis”
  • German: “Plovdiv”
  • German: “Plowdiw”
  • Greek: “Πλόβντιβ”
  • Greek: “Πλόβντιφ”
  • Greek: “Φιλιππούπολη”
  • Gujarati: “પ્લોવ્ડિવ”
  • Hebrew: “פלובדיב”
  • Hindi: “प्लोवदिव”
  • Hindi: “प्लोव्दिव”
  • Hungarian: “Plovdiv”
  • Icelandic: “Plovdiv”
  • Ido: “Plovdiv”
  • Indonesian: “Plovdiv”
  • Interlingue: “Plovdiv”
  • Irish: “Plovdiv”
  • Italian: “Filippopoli”
  • Italian: “Plovdiv”
  • Japanese: “プロヴディフ”
  • Javanese: “Plovdiv”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಲೋವ್‍ಡಿವ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Plovdiv”
  • Kazakh: “Пловдив”
  • Kirghiz: “Пловдив”
  • Korean: “플로브디프”
  • Kurdish: “Plovdîv”
  • Latin: “Philippopolis”
  • Latvian: “Plovdiva”
  • Limburgan: “Plovdiv”
  • Lithuanian: “Plovdivas”
  • Lombard: “Filipopul”
  • Luxembourgish: “Plovdiv”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Plovdiv”
  • Macedonian: “Пловдив”
  • Malagasy: “Plôvdiv”
  • Malay: “Plovdiv”
  • Maltese: “Plovdiv”
  • Marathi: “प्लॉव्हडिव्ह”
  • Moksha: “Пловдив”
  • Mongolian: “Пловдив”
  • Nepali: “प्लोभदिभ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Plowdiw (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Plowdiw”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Plovdiv”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plovdiv”
  • Norwegian: “Plovdiv”
  • Novial: “Plovdiv”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Plovdiv”
  • Ossetian: “Пловдив”
  • Persian: “پلوودیف”
  • Persian: “پلوودیو”
  • Polish: “Płowdiw”
  • Portuguese: “Plovdiv”
  • Romanian: “Plovdiv”
  • Russia Buriat: “Пловдив”
  • Russian: “Одрис”
  • Russian: “Пловдив”
  • Russian: “Пулпудева”
  • Russian: “Тримонтий”
  • Russian: “Филибе”
  • Russian: “Филиппополь”
  • Russian: “Эвмолпиада”
  • Scots: “Plovdiv”
  • Serbian: “Пловдив”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Plovdiv”
  • Silesian: “Płowdiw”
  • Sinhala: “ප්ලොව්ඩිව්”
  • Slovak: “Plovdiv”
  • Slovenian: “Plovdiv”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پلودیو”
  • Spanish: “Plovdiv”
  • Swedish: “Plovdiv”
  • Tagalog: “Plovdiv”
  • Tajik: “Пловдив”
  • Tamil: “பிலவ்டிவ்”
  • Tamil: “ப்ளோவ்டிவ்”
  • Tatar: “Филибә”
  • Telugu: “ప్లోవ్దివ్”
  • Thai: “ปลอฟดิฟ”
  • Thai: “พลอฟดิฟ”
  • Turkish: “Filibe”
  • Turkmen: “Plowdiw”
  • Ukrainian: “Пловдив”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Plowdiw”
  • Urdu: “پلوودیف”
  • Uzbek: “Plovdiv”
  • Venetian: “Fiłipopołi”
  • Venetian: “Plovdiv”
  • Veps: “Plovdiv”
  • Vietnamese: “Plovdiv”
  • Vlax Romani: “Plovdiv”
  • Volapük: “Plovdiv”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Plovdiv”
  • Welsh: “Plovdiv”
  • Western Armenian: “Փլովտիւ”
  • Western Panjabi: “پلوودیف”
  • Wu Chinese: “普罗夫迪夫”
  • Yiddish: “פלאוודיוו”
  • Yue Chinese: “普羅夫迪夫”
  • “Plovdiv”

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