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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 400 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILIPPOPOLIS (Bulgarian, Plovdiv; See also:Turkish, Felibe)  , the See also:capital of Eastern See also:Rumelia, and of the See also:department of See also:Philippopolis, See also:Bulgaria; situated in the midst of picturesque See also:granite eminences on the right See also:bank of the See also:river Maritza, 96 m . E.S.E. of See also:Sofia and 97 M . W.N.W. of See also:Adrianople . Pop . (1906) 45,572, of whom a large See also:majority are Bulgarians, and the See also:remainder chiefly See also:Turks, Greeks, See also:Jews, Armenians or See also:gipsies . Philippopolis is on the See also:main railway from See also:Vienna to See also:Constantinople, via See also:Belgrade and Sofia . The Maritza is navigable up to this point, and as the See also:city has communication by See also:rail both with the See also:port of See also:Dedeagatch on the Mediterranean and that of See also:Burgas on the See also:Black See also:Sea, and is situated in a remarkably fertile See also:country, it has become the See also:chief commercial centre of See also:southern Bulgaria, and is the seat of both See also:Greek and Bulgarian archbishops . The residences of the richer Greeks and Bulgarians occupy the slopes of the largest See also:eminence, the Jambaz-tepe, in the centre of the city; between it and the Nobtet-tepc, from the See also:summit of which there is a magnificent view of the city, is the Armenian See also:quarter; near the See also:bridge over the Maritza is the poorer See also:Turkish quarter; and See also:south-See also:west of the Jambaz-tepe there is a suburb of villas . On the Bunari-tepe a See also:monument has been erected by the Russians in See also:commemoration of the See also:war of 1877, and near this is the new See also:palace of the See also:king of Bulgaria . The Sahubtepe is crowned by a See also:clock-See also:tower . Not far from it are the beautiful See also:Exhibition See also:Park laid out in 1892 and the See also:fine Journaia-Jami See also:Mosque . Near the Maritza are the remains of the See also:ancient konak (palace) of the Turkish pashas, the public park formed by the Russians in 1877, the gymnasium, and the new Greek See also:cathedral .

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commerce in See also:rice, See also:attar of See also:roses, and cocoons; other exports being See also:wheat, See also:wine, See also:tobacco, See also:alcohol and hides . Eumolpia, a Thracian See also:town, was captured by See also:Philip of Macedon and made one of his frontier posts; hence its name of Philippopolis, or " Philip's City." Under the See also:Romans Philoppopolis or See also:Trimontium became the capital of Thracia; Ind, even after its See also:capture by the Goths, when See also:Ioo,000 persons are said to have .been slain, it continued to be a flourishing city till it was again sacked by the Bulgarians in 1205 . It passed under Turkish See also:rule in 1363; in 1818 it was destroyed by an See also:earthquake; and in 1846 it suffered from a severe conflagration . During the war of 1877-78 the city was occupied by the Russians (see also BULGARIA: See also:History) .

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