Pazardzhik, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Pazardzhik, Bulgaria shares 93 connections with 14867 other places across 17 topics, with history and nature forming the strongest threads, followed by government. Ottoman-era river trade carried goods toward Adrianople and Constantinople, and during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 Iosif Gurko expelled Ottoman forces from the city. The most-shared places outside Bulgaria are France, Turkey, and Greece. A clay idol known as the Pazardzhik Venus, found in 1872, now sits in Vienna's Natural History Museum.