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Local time
  
Thursday 12:47 AM

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Population
  
8,422 (Dec 2009)


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9°C, Wind W at 10 km/h, 47% Humidity

Septemvri (Bulgarian: Септември, lit. September) is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, located at the western end of the Upper Thracian Lowland, 19 km (12 mi) away to the west from the city of Pazardzhik. It is the administrative centre of homonymous Septemvri Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 8,422 inhabitants.

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Map of 4490 Septemvri, Bulgaria

History

Four Thracian mounds and traces of two ancient cities - Greek Pistiros and an Roman town that lies on Trayan's Drum were discovered near the town. It has succeeded as an old Bulgarian settlement, which was destroyed in the late 14th century during the Ottoman onslaught. The town was rebuilt at the end of the 15th century under the Turkish name of Sara Khan bey, and carried this name until 1949.

Septemvri developed into a typical railway town following the construction of the Haskovo-Belovo railway line in 1873. The scenic Septemvri-Dobrinishte narrow gauge line to the Rhodopi mountain town of Dobrinishte over Bansko was constructed in 1945.

In 2011 a couple of gun-ballers cycled from Oxford to Septemvri.

References

Septemvri Wikipedia


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