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Wow, incredible as always. All these ancient treasures still buried and waiting to be found all over the world.
In case you were wondering, Plovdiv is pronounced ˈpɫɔvdif. In Bulgarian: Пловдив.
Your article mentioned how many times Philippopolis was conquered and changed hands. Imagine living under all those different conquerors in a short period of time.
Wiki —> [Back in the beginning,] Philippopolis was founded as a polis by the father of Alexander the Great, Philip the Great (r. 359–336 BC), the king of ancient Macedonia, settling there both Thracians and 2,000 Macedonians and Greeks in 342 BCE. Control of the city alternated between the Macedonian kingdom and the Thracian Odrysian kingdom during the Hellenistic period; the Macedonian king Philip V (r. 221–179 BC) reoccupied the city in 183 BC and his successor Perseus (r. 179–168 BC) held the city with the Odrysians until the Roman Republic conquered the Macedonian kingdom in 168 BCE. Philippopolis became the capital of the Roman province of Thracia. The city was at the centre of the road network of inland Thrace, and the strategic Via Militaris was crossed by several other roads at the site, leading to the Danube, the Aegean Sea, and the Black Sea. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (r. 161–180 AD) built a new wall around the city.
What a strategic location.
Professor Severus Snape (Harry Potter series) has a royal blood line!
