Haskovo

Haskovo [ xaskovo ] ( Bulgarian Хасково, Turkish Hasköy ) is a city in Bulgaria with 78 929 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2004), located in a hilly valley. The city is regarded as a road transport hub and is the administrative seat of the homonymous Haskovo Oblast.

History

As a market town end of the 14th century emerged with an oriental character, it is today a modern city with developed industry (especially tobacco production) and cultural center of the area.

Attractions

  • Historical Museum,
  • The mosque from 1395 (the oldest in Bulgaria) as well as monuments, among other things Petko Wojwoda, a campaigner of Garibaldi.

Environment

  • Near the town are the Chaskowoer mineral baths in which besides many other diseases, the Winiwarter - Buergersche disease is treated.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Asparuch ' Ari ' Leschnikow (1897-1978), singer, tenor of the Berliner Ensemble Comedian Harmonists
  • Dimiter Inkiow (1932-2006), children's book author
  • Ertuğrul Yalçınbayır ( born 1946 ), Turkish politician, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State in the Cabinet Gül
  • Grigor Dimitrov (* 1991), tennis player
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