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Extract from the Stara Zagora Travel Guides:
STARA ZAGORA
means "Old Town Behind the Mountain", an apt name for this settlement on the far flanks of the eastern Sredna Gora, with a history of occupation stretching back some 7000 years. Neolithic farmers were the first on the scene, while it was the Thracians, in the fifth century BC, who established the first significant town, which they called Beroe. Reconstructed and refounded by the Romans as Augusta Traiana in the second century AD, it stood at the crossroads of two important trade routes, and commanded a fertile area still noted for its wheat and fruit orchards. This attractive location had its downside, though; the town...
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