EU: Plovdiv - Bazaar (1901) through time

Plovdiv 1901–1910 6 photos of this spot

6 photographs taken at the same spot in Plovdiv, spanning 1901–1910 — 6 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

The bazaar in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, photographed in 1901. Plovdiv is regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe, with settlement on its site reaching back thousands of years before this photograph was taken.

EU: Plovdiv - Bazaar (1901) 1901 The bazaar in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, photographed in 1901. Plovdiv is regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe, with settlement on its site reaching back thousands of years before this photograph was taken.

EU: Plovdiv - Mosque (1901) 1901 A mosque in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, photographed in 1901, a legacy of the city's roughly five centuries under Ottoman administration; Plovdiv itself remained part of the separate Ottoman-administered province of Eastern Rumelia until it united with Bulgaria in 1885.

EU: Plovdiv - Greek houses (1901) 1901 Houses belonging to Plovdiv's Greek community, photographed in 1901. Plovdiv's old town was historically home to a mix of Bulgarian, Greek, Armenian, and Jewish residents whose grand nineteenth-century houses still line its cobbled streets.

EU: Plovdiv - Spa baths (1901) 1901 Spa baths in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, photographed in 1901, a reminder of the city's long tradition of public bathhouses inherited from centuries of Ottoman rule, when hamams were central to daily social life in cities across the Balkans.

EU: Plovdiv - Town view (1901) 1901 A general town view of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, captured in 1901, showing the city built across several rocky hills beside the Maritsa River in the historic region of Thrace, in what was then the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria.

EU: Plovdiv - Turkish Quarter (1910) 1910 A view of the Turkish Quarter of Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city, photographed in 1910. The quarter reflected the city's long history under Ottoman rule, which ended with Bulgarian independence in the late nineteenth century, leaving a mixed architectural legacy still visible at the time.