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Unearthing Plovdiv, the modern heart of ancient Thrace

BBC's The Travel Show
Features correspondent
Discover Plovdiv, Bulgaria, one of the ancient world’s best kept secrets in Bulgaria.

Archaeologists uncover the shops and stadium of ancient Philippopolis – modern-day Plovdiv, Bulgaria – a city once governed by the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires.

Archaeologists uncover the shops and stadium of ancient Philippopolis – modern-day Plovdiv, Bulgaria – a city once governed by the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires.

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