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Knyaz [Prince] Aleksander I Street is part of the longest pedestrian zone in Europe (1,750m/1.1miles, surpassing Copenhagen’s 1,500m/0.9miles). A merchant street under the Ottomans, today it is lined by buildings from the early 1900s CE.

(Alexander of Battenberg was the first prince of the Principality of Bulgaria, reigning from 1879 to 1886 CE.)

Thracians settled Plovdiv in the 5th century BCE. In 342 BCE it was conquered by Philip II of Macedon who named it Philippopolis. The Romans ruled from the 1st to 4th centuries CE with the population reaching 100,000. Attila’s Huns destroyed the city in 447 CE. Slavs had taken over by the middle of the 6th century CE. Control shifted back and forth between the Bulgarians and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) until the city fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1364 CE. Although Bulgaria was liberated from the Ottomans in 1878 CE, geo-political interference delayed Plovdiv’s unification with Bulgaria until 1885 CE. Today Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after the capital of Sofia.

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Knyaz Aleksander I Street 42° 8'43.93"N, 24°44'56.37"E
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Source 20190523_Bulgaria_6605 Plovdiv sRGB
Author Dan Lundberg
Camera location42° 08′ 46.99″ N, 24° 44′ 55.2″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Dan Lundberg at https://flickr.com/photos/9508280@N07/48656338781. It was reviewed on 2 May 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

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