Septemvri Bulgaria - Travel Guide, Tours, Hotels and Photos - Pictures of Bulgaria

The town of Septemvri lies at the western end of the Upper Thracian Lowland, 19km to the west of the town of Pazardzhik. It has succeeded a Roman town and an old Bulgarian settlement, which was destroyed in the late 14th century during the Ottoman invasion. The town was rebuilt in the end of the 15th c. under the name of Saranbey, and carried this name until 1949.

Septemvri developed into a typical railway station-town following the construction of the Haskovo-Belyovo railway line in 1873 and later – a narrow-gauge line to the Rhodopi mountain’s town of Dobrinishte in 1945. Four Thracian mounds and traces of an ancient settlement that lied on the so-called Trayan‘s Drum have been discovered in the area around the town.