Karazura

Scientists from the Prehistorical Arheology Institute together with their coleagues from the Bulgarian Academy of Science have recntly found a very important place where people lived a long time ago.

The area is situated on the south scirts of Sredna Gora mountain, about 50 km North-East from Plovdiv, near the town of Chirpan. In ancient times it was a main station on the shortest way between Europe and the Near East.

As a Roman military road, it connected the important towns of Singidinum(Belgrad), Serdika(Sofia) and Adrianopolis(Odrin) with Konstantinopol(Istanbul) the capital of the East-Roman and later the Byzantium Empire.

Even today this route is important for the transit economical traffic of Europe.

The settling of this area begun far in the V Millenium BC(The early Stone Age). This happened thanks to natural resources that this place gave to people - fat lands, big amount of mineral water, the temperate climate of the Mediterranian.

The village existed almost 6000 years without interruptions until the XIII c. AD. The route of the ancient way defined its constantly changing history. Numerous travellers, legions, conquerors, crusaders, merchants, bandits and more and more settlers seaked the the richness of this area.