SOFIA

“She grows but she does not age”
Sofia is the city that “grows but it does not age”.

In origin Sofia founded village was one trace, in one zone with previous neolithic takeovers us, in the WAYS sec. a.C from the tribe of the Serdi, from which the first Serdica name. Occupied from the Roman in the 29 d.C., it was developed in with the name of Ulpia Serdica like fortified center and market.

Under Aureliano divenne capoluogo of the province of Dacia and towards the half of the IV sec. it was center of Concilio which 170 bishops participated.

It was an important passage point on the road between Naisus (today Nis in Serbia) and Costantinopoli.

In the 441 it was plundered from the Unni, therefore reconstructed from Giustiniano. It was Bulgarian city from the WAYS sec., but in 1018 it was taken from the Bizantini. It returned Bulgarian to the end of the XII sec, where it was one of the greater centers of According to Bulgarian Reign. Triaditza from the Bizantini was called, Sredetz from the Slavs. Sofia assumed puts into effect it them name Sofia in the XIV sec. from the Saint basilica.

In 1382 he falls under Turkish domination, under which it was a modest economic center. Freed after the Russian-Turk war (the 1878) divenne understood them of the Third party Bulgarian Reign in 1879. The city was developed quickly passing from 20.000 to 300.000 inhabitants (1939).

Sofia is today one modern cosmopolita city of 1.100.000 inhabitants: it rispecchia in reperti archaeological that conserve and the architecture the various moments of the history of the city and the Country.