Serdica

The Bulgarian capital was known to the Romans as Serdica and gained importance because of its position on the Diagonis, the region's crucial trade road between the Danube and Constantinople.

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Under his rule the Bulgarian realm extended from the Carpathians to the neighbourhood of Adrianople; Serdica

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

The Emperor Trajan transformed the borough of the Serdi into a city which he called Ulpia Serdica.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

The true name of the city (now Sophia, the capital of Bulgaria) was Serdica, the city of the Serdi, a Thracian people defeated by Crassus in 29 B.C. and subjected to the Kingdom of Thrace, the vassal of Rome.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

After Marcellus had been foiled, as I have mentioned, and had returned to Serdica, which was his native place, many great crimes were perpetrated in the camp of Augustus, under pretence of upholding the majesty of the emperor.

The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851

The summits of the mountain chains of Hæmus [117] and Rhodope, the first of which rises up from the very banks of the Danube, and the other from the southern bank of the river Axius, ending with swelling ridges at one narrow point, separate the Illyrians and the Thracians, being on the one side near the inland Dacians and Serdica, on the other looking towards Thrace and the rich and noble city of Philippopolis.

The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851

Roman city of Serdica, today's Sofia, according to architect Konstantin Peev, head of the EKSA company, which is helping the Sofia Municipality with the excavation and restoration of the archaeological heritage of the Bulgarian capital.

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According to Peev, the bouleuterion of the city of Serdica was located under the northwestern corner of today's building of the Sheraton Sofia Hotel Balkan.

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The Serdica bouleuterion had a diameter of about 20 meters.

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