Targovishte

Targovishte is a region in Bulgaria with a population of over 46 000, and is located approximately 170 m above sea-level. The administrative center is the town of Targovishte. It is situated at the southern foot of the low mountain of Preslav on both banks of the Vrana River. It is 339 km north-east of Sofia, 41 km west of Shumen, 25 km north-west of Veliki Preslav, 24 km north-east of Omurtag, 100 km north-east of Veliko Tarnovo, 36 km south of Razgrad, and 35 km south-east of Popovo. The town and the whole region was a famous ancient market area. In the 18th and 19th centuries it became a famous marketplace for animals and craft products called Eski-Djumaia. Industrial development began after the Second World War. Factories producing car batteries and machines for the food industry were opened; later, furniture and textile industries developed. One of Bulgaria's largest wine production factories is located there. The town is a cultural center. In 2000, ruins of an ancient Roman town called Missionis were found near Targovishte. The human life was bubbling in these parts already in the Neolithic period. Remains of thracian settlements as well as the Old Roman ones where discovered in the vicinity of Targovishte. Also found were an early Byzantine settlement and a fortress dated back to V - VI cent. B.C. The favourable geographic location, the climatic and natural facts troughout centuries defined this region as a preferable living area which was densely populated also in the Middle Ages at the time of the 1 and 2nd Bulgarian Kingdoms. The old name of the settlement - Eski Djumaya - emerges for the first time in a 1573 Ottoman tax register. From XVII on, it became an administrative centre and the place where the most popular trade fair in the European part of the Ottoman Empire used do be held. It was here where the merchandises and cultures of Austria, Germany, England, Russia, the Near East and the Arabic world got in close touch. After its liberation from the Ottoman rule during the Russian - Turkish war /1877 - 1878/, cherishing its traditions, the town assumed European pattern of social and economic development.

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100 sq.m. 4720 sq.m. € 33600

The house that we offer to you Is located in the village of Konak, near Targovishte and is only 70 Kilometeres from Veliko Tarnovo . The nearest airport is Varna- 156km away. The nearest town is Popovo(15 km). The house is two storey... more