English: THIS IS THE APPEARANCE OF THE ROMAN FORUM AS OF 1992. PLOVDIV IS BULGARIA'S SECOND LARGEST CITY FOUNDED 8000 YEARS AGO BY THE THRACIANS WHO NAMED IT POULPOUDEVA; IN 342 PHILIP II OF MACEDON SEIZED IT AND CALLED IT PHILIPPOPOLIS. THE ROMANS CONQUERED THE TOWN AND CALLED IT TROMONTIUM BECAUSE IT IS BUILT ON 3 HILLS; THE SLAVS CALLED IT PULDIN AND THE TURKS CALLED IT FILIBE. IT WAS PART OF THE FIRST BULGARIAN KINGDOM. AFTER THE RUSSIAN LIBERATION IN 1878 IT BECAME THE CAPITAL OF EASTERN ROUMELIA, A TERRITORY UNDER OTTOMAN SUZERAINTY;