Philippopolis
Bulgaria, on the navigable Maritza; 110 miles W. by N. of Adrianople. It manufactures silk, cotton, tobacco, leather, etc., and prepares and exports attar of roses. outpost of the Macedonian kingdom, it was ruined by the Goths, captured by the Turks (1363), destroyed by an earthoutpost of the Macedonian kingdom, it was ruined by the Goths, captured by the cupied by the Russians 1878. Pop. about 50,000, of whom nearly half are Turks, Greeks, and others than Bulgarians.