Haskovo

Haskovo (Bulgarian: Хасково), is a city, an administrative centre of the homonymous Haskovo Province in southern Bulgaria, not far from the borders with Greece and Turkey. As of February 2011, it has a population of 74,843 inhabitants. The first settlement found in Haskovo are from 5000 years BC. The thracian name of the settlement is Marsa. Haskovo celebrated its 1,000th anniversary as a town in 1985. To mark the event, a new clock tower was erected in the centre of the town. In medieval times it was known for the nearby Uzundzhovo fair, famous in all of Bulgaria. There is a video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR6aCrcPCxs with pictures from the modern town. According to the archeologists, the area of Haskovo was originally...