Plovdiv in Bulgaria is Europe's oldest continuously inhabited city and one of the most fascinating places the continent has to offer. Believed to have been founded in around 6000BC, it was named ...

C onsidered the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe, Plovdiv in Bulgaria has a history and prehistory that dates back 8,000 years. The original inhabitants are unknown, but from its ...

The historical and cultural artifacts of the Ottoman era in Bulgaria's southeastern Plovdiv city have fallen into ruin. The city, which gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1878 ...

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So Patel swapped his northern English hometown of Blackburn for six years of study in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, following in the footsteps of a growing number of British-Asian ...