Plovdiv University

The Plovdiv University "Paisiy Hilendarski" (Bulgarian: "Пловдивски университет „Паисий Хилендарски") is a university located in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It was founded in 1962 and has nine faculties. Plovdiv University, named in honor of the Bulgarian historian Paisiy Hilendarski, is the city’s leading cultural and scientific institution. It is the largest institution of higher education in Southern Bulgaria, and the third largest Bulgarian university, after St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia and St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo. The year 2001 marks the university’s fortieth anniversary. In 1945 the University of Plovdiv was inaugurated by a Decree of the Regents’ Council of August the 4th, promulgated the same...