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unusual facts about Northern district, Plovdiv


Novotel Plovdiv

It is located in the city's northern district, to the north of the Maritsa River and in the vicinity of the International Fair Plovdiv.


2011–12 B PFG

Additionally the teams of Spartak (Plovdiv) and Brestnik 1948 (Plovdiv) declared not being ready to fulfill the license regulations and voluntarily got relegted to V AFG.

Administrative divisions of Riga

The administrative divisions of Riga consists of six administrative entities: Central District, Kurzeme District, Latgale Suburb, Northern District, Vidzeme Suburb and Zemgale Suburb.

Alexander Sekulov

Alexander Sekulov (born 6 January 1964, Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a contemporary Bulgarian writer.

Ali Suavi

Ali Suavi (1838–1878) worked as a teacher at Bursa elementary school and preached at Sehzade Mosque in Istanbul; writer at Philip Efendi’s newspaper Muhbir; worked in different positions at offices in Simav, Plovdiv and Sofia.

Arado Ar 196

:Aircraft operated by Bulgarian Air Force is displayed at the Museum of Aviation and the Air Force, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Béni Kállay

After the Russo-Turkish War of 1878 he went to Plovdiv (modern Bulgaria) as Austro-Hungarian envoy extraordinary on the International Eastern Rumelian Commission.

Bogdan Stefanov Dobranov

Bogdan Dobranov was a Bulgarian Catholic priest and bishop Ordinariate of Sofia, Plovdiv diocese.

Central Balkan dialect

Its range includes most of north-central Bulgaria (without the regions of Dryanovo and Elena), as well as the regions of Karlovo, Kazanlak and Plovdiv in southern Bulgaria, all the way down to the northernmost ridges of the Rhodopes.

Church of St Demetrius, Patalenitsa

Some publications refer to a marble plate found in the church and bearing a Medieval Greek inscription with the following text: "by Gregory Kourkouas, protospatharios and duke of Philippopolis, indiction 14, year 6599 (= 1090/1091)".

Dimitar Lukanov

Dimitar Lukanov (Bulgarian: Димитър Луканов, born February 23, 1969, Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is internationally renowned Bulgarian-American artist.

Elections in Bulgaria

The majority vote provided additional 31 seats corresponding to the constituencies of the 28 Provinces of Bulgaria with an additional 3 reserved for the most populated cities of Sofia and Plovdiv.

Hacho Boyadzhiev

Boyadzhiev spent his childhood in Novi Pazar and then enrolled in the Saint Augustine French college in Plovdiv.

Hashalom

Friends in Sofia and Filipolje, we wait for your good promises: to our subscribers in Pazardzhik, Niš, Vidin, Yambol, Varna, Kragujevac, Dupnica, thank you for continuation of your favors to enable us continue: subscribers in Sarajevo and Šabac, we thank you as well (Hashalom III, 2: 16).

Hristo G. Danov

As the war led to Bulgaria's liberation, Danov had his printing office moved from Vienna to Plovdiv (which in 1878 became the capital of autonomous Eastern Rumelia, which united with the Principality of Bulgaria in 1885).

Ionuţ Gheorghe

Gheorghe won another bronze medal in the same division two years later, at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Plovdiv where he lost to local Boris Georgiev.

Ivan Mrkvička

Mrkvička came to Plovdiv in 1881 after an invitation by the then-Eastern Rumelian government and worked as a teacher in the Cyril and Methodius high school, where he co-operated with the most important cultural figures in the city — Ivan Vazov, Konstantin Velichkov, Petko Karavelov, Petko Slaveykov.

Kalugerovo, Pazardzhik Province

It is located next to Trakya high-way, which provides a well connection with the two largest Bulgarian cities Plovdiv (55 kilometers) and Sofia (85 kilometers).

Kubrat Pulev

He finished at third place at the European Championships in Plovdiv.

Mihail Apostolov

All of them were born in the liberated parts of Bulgaria and had military training: Vasil Ivanov Chochov – senior sergeant from the First Infantry Regiment, Aleksandar Marinov from Plovdiv – a student from the Non-commissioned Office School, Filip Grigorov - a student from the same school, Nikolay Petrov – non-commissioned officer and others.

National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria

Attended by over 820 people from across the country, mainly from the cities of Varna, Shumen, Asenovgrad, Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Vratsa, Svilengrad, Lovech, Chirpan, Stara Zagora, Vidin and Dobrich.

Nikola Marinov

Marinov has also done a great number of frescoes in churches in Plovdiv, Lovech, Biala Cherkva, Pernik and Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia.

Philippopolis

Plovdiv, Bulgaria (named after Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great's father)

Plovdiv Regional Historical Museum

The Bulgarian National Revival department, situated in the large house of the Greek merchant from Thessaloniki Dimitris Georgiadi built 1846, takes up 825 m² and traces the history of Plovdiv from the 15th to the 19th century.

Raion

In Bulgaria, raions are subdivisions of three biggest cities: Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna.

Raymond Keene

He represented England four times at the Students' Olympiad (Örebro 1966, Harrachov 1967, Ybbs 1968 and Dresden 1969) and four times at the European Team Championships (Bath 1973, Moscow 1977, Skara 1980 and Plovdiv 1983).

Ruse Central railway station

The station is an important transport hub, with trains to Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv domestically and Bucharest and Istanbul internationally.

Saedinenie

Saedinenie, Plovdiv Province - a town in the Saedinenie Municipality of the Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria

Slatina Peak

Named after the Bulgarian settlements of Slatina in Montana, Lovech, Plovdiv, Silistra and Sofia regions (the last one now part of the city of Sofia).

Stefan Toshev

General Stefan Toshev died on 27 November 1924 in Plovdiv and was buried in Sofia.

Süleyman Askerî Bey

During the days he stayed in Monastir, he joined the Committee of Union and Progress and he married Fadime Hanım, who was an aristocrat of Filibe (present-day Plovdiv).

Syenite

Syenite is not a common rock, some of the more important occurrences being in New England, Arkansas, Montana, New York (syenite gneisses), Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Malawi (Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve) and Romania (Ditrău).

Thracia

The new province of Thracia comprised the northwestern portion of the old province, i.e. the upper valley of the Hebrus river between Haemus and Rhodope and including Philippopolis, which had become the provincial capital in the early 3rd century.

Trakiya district

From 2003 to 2007 the mayor was Slavcho Atanasov from IMRO – Bulgarian National Movement who is currently mayor of Plovdiv.

Trimontium

Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the capital of the ancient Roman province of Thrace

UniCredit Bulbank

The 1992 meeting of shareholders changed the bank's status to a universal commercial bank, so the branch network was expanded (Plovdiv, Kardzhali, Burgas, Stara Zagora, etc.), focusing on customer service in the years to follow.

Varna railway station

Today, it is a key railway junction with three lines to Sofia and separate lines to Karnobat, Rousse, Plovdiv, Pleven, Shumen, Dobrich, etc.

Viktorija Čmilytė

Čmilytė has also enjoyed considerable success at the Women's European Individual Chess Championship, where she captured silver medals in 2003 (Istanbul), 2008 (Plovdiv), and 2010 (Rijeka).

Vinkenti Peev

He succeeded Archbishop Roberto Meni on 14 October 1916 as Vicar Apostolic of Sofia and Plovdiv.

Vratsa Province

The distance to the major cities is as follows: Vratsa - Varna 414 km, Vratsa - Plovdiv 217 km; Vratsa - Pleven 108 km; Vratsa - Burgas 416 km.

Zlatina Deliradeva

In 1972 Zlatina Deliradeva became Conductor-in-Chief of the Detska Kitka Choir of Plovdiv, Bulgaria and her artistic biography has been closely linked with this choir.


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