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Stara Zagora (Cyrillic: Стара Загора) is a city in southern Bulgaria. It is located in Stara Zagora Province, about 231 km from Sofia. Its population is about 163,000, making it the sixth-largest city in Bulgaria. Stara Zagora is known as the city of straight streets, lime trees and poets.
According to the city's chamber of commerce, it is one of the oldest settlements in Europe, being at least eight thousand years old.
Stara Zagora is considered to be one of the oldest settlements in Bulgaria and Southeastern Europe. It was founded by the Thracians under the name Beroe (meaning "iron") about 6-5 millennium BC, with the Neolite dwellings and the copper mine around the city being the oldest preserved ones in Europe. The area has been a mining region since Antiquity.
Under the Roman Empire, the town was renamed in honor of emperor Trajan to Augusta Traiana.
At the time of the Byzantine Empire, it took the name Irinipolis after the Byzantine empress. The fortifications around the town were reconstructed because of fear of Bulgarian attacks, but Irinopolis and the whole Zagore region were incorporated into Bulgaria under Tervel in 717 as a Byzantine gift in acknowledgement of the Bulgarian help to fight back the Arabs besieging Constantinople. The region was the first Bulgarian territorial gain south of Stara Planina. The town acquired the name Boruy.
Stara Zagora was conquered by the Ottomans in 1371. A class school was built in 1840 and the town's name was changed to Zheleznik (a Slavic translation of Beroe) in 1854 instead of the Turkish Eski Zagra, but was renamed once again to Stara Zagora in 1870. After the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, it became part of autonomous Eastern Rumelia, before the two Bulgarian states finally merged in 1886 as a result of the act of Unification of Bulgaria.
According to the city's chamber of commerce, it is one of the oldest settlements in Europe, being at least eight thousand years old.
Stara Zagora is considered to be one of the oldest settlements in Bulgaria and Southeastern Europe. It was founded by the Thracians under the name Beroe (meaning "iron") about 6-5 millennium BC, with the Neolite dwellings and the copper mine around the city being the oldest preserved ones in Europe. The area has been a mining region since Antiquity.
Under the Roman Empire, the town was renamed in honor of emperor Trajan to Augusta Traiana.
At the time of the Byzantine Empire, it took the name Irinipolis after the Byzantine empress. The fortifications around the town were reconstructed because of fear of Bulgarian attacks, but Irinopolis and the whole Zagore region were incorporated into Bulgaria under Tervel in 717 as a Byzantine gift in acknowledgement of the Bulgarian help to fight back the Arabs besieging Constantinople. The region was the first Bulgarian territorial gain south of Stara Planina. The town acquired the name Boruy.
Stara Zagora was conquered by the Ottomans in 1371. A class school was built in 1840 and the town's name was changed to Zheleznik (a Slavic translation of Beroe) in 1854 instead of the Turkish Eski Zagra, but was renamed once again to Stara Zagora in 1870. After the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, it became part of autonomous Eastern Rumelia, before the two Bulgarian states finally merged in 1886 as a result of the act of Unification of Bulgaria.
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