We leave for a long more than 200 km crossing, the last on the way to the Greek capital. Scenic road! Mostly highway goes directly to the Aegean Sea. the final stretch of road already passes through numerous suburbs of Athens. Plot European route E75 connects the administrative center of the periphery (region) Central Greece Lamia city and capital of Greece, Athens The road between the two cities passes through the territory of Greece Who cares - subscribe to interesting channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/zzz82166able
The next city that we met on the way to the Mediterranean Sea - the city of Lamia. It is the administrative center of the periphery of Central Greece. The town is very pretty. Lamia - a city in Greece, the administrative center of the periphery of Central Greece. The center of a large agricultural region. Located 180 kilometers north-west of Athens. In December 2009, near the town an earthquake of 4.3 magnitude.
In Lamia Greek government decree based Central University of Greece in April 2003.
Population - 56,000 people
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We continue our journey! The road is the same - E75. We are heading to Central Greece. Length also is moving 150 km. And the wonderful high-speed autobahn! Plot European route E75 connects the administrative center of the periphery (region) Larissa Thessaly city and administrative center of the periphery (region) Central Greece town of Lamia The road between the two cities passes through the territory of Greece Who cares - subscribe to interesting channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/zzz82166able
Here we are in the next town - Larissa. The town is small, but the population density is large, many streets and intersections. Larissa - the administrative center of the Greek periphery of Thessaly. In this city lived and treated people the great Hippocrates. There he died. According to Greek mythology, he was born in Larissa famous warrior Achilles, who had only one vulnerable spot - his heel. Hence was born the famous expression - "Achilles heel." Larissa (Greek Λάρισα, Ant Larissa..) - A city in Greece, the administrative center of the periphery (regions) Thessaly. The fifth largest city in the country after Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras and Heraklion.
In 2011 the population of Larissa was 162,591 inhabitants.
The exact source of the founding of the city there. According to some reports the city there are more than 4000 years. There is also an ancient Greek myth, which says that the city was built Pelasges. Since the VIII. BC. e. the city was the actual center of the region of Thessaly, although as a unified state did not exist Thessaly. Rulers Larissa (from the genus Alevadov) had the highest authority in the common affairs of Thessaly, what if questions were mostly religious. During the first sacred war rulers of Thessaly strongly supported Delphi and then enjoyed great authority in Greece. They established and maintained the Pythian games. During the Greco-Persian wars of Larissa, as the rest of Thessaly, supported Persia. After the defeat of Persia Thessaly Larissa and played an active role in the story.
In the city he lived and died Hippocrates.
Around the year 350 BC. e. Sim from Alevadov kind of tyranny, but in 344 BC. e. the city was captured by the Macedonian troops of Philip II; later, in 197 BC. e., the city captured by the Romans.
In 1941 the town was significantly destroyed the Italian air force.
Larisa - a large railway station Greek railways
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We expect a 150-km crossing between Thessaloniki and Larissa! Moving south along the Aegean coast in the historical region of Greece - Thessaly. Center of Thessaly is the city of Larissa. Click on the gas and rush for the excellent motorway! Several sites will neskorotsnymi, due to the fact that the route passes through the mountains. In Greece, this is the main road - the route №1, Thessaloniki - Athens. Plot European route E75 connects the administrative center of the periphery (region) Central Macedonia Thessaloniki and the administrative center of the periphery (region) Larissa Thessaly city The road between the two cities passes through the territory of Greece Who cares - subscribe to interesting channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/zzz82166able
We drive into one of the most famous Greek cities - Thessaloniki. The Greeks call it "second capital". Thessaloniki - a major port city situated on the Aegean coast. Here live more than a million people. Thessaloniki - one of the centers of international tourism. City old, with a rich history. He deserves it, to stay there and take a walk. Here is the largest Greek Aristotle University. In Thessaloniki, he spent his childhood the future Turkish hero who threw the Ottoman Empire - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη, Thessaloniki, tour Selanik;... St.-Slavic Solѹn) - the second largest city with a population of Greece, together with the suburban areas, over 1,104,460 people (2011). Thessaloniki - the administrative center of the Greek periphery (region) Central Macedonia Located Thessaloniki: Aristotle University - the largest university in the Balkans, Macedonia airport and a major seaport on the economic value is second only to Piraeus. In the vicinity of a large number of small settlements that are summer tourism destination. Thessaloniki was founded by Cassander king of Macedonia in 315 BC. e. The wife of the king of Cassandra was half-sister of Alexander the Great - Thessalonica, whose name the king named the new city. In the VI-VII centuries Goths and Slavs several times tried in vain to take Thessalonica. In 904 the city was sacked by pirates Saracen, and 22 000 inhabitants were sold into slavery. In 995, the city briefly captured the Bulgarians. In 1185 the city was captured and sacked by the Sicilian Normans. Since 1206 Thessaloniki - the capital of the Roman state - the Kingdom of the Thessalonians, is part of the Latin Empire. In the years 1387-1402 the city belonged to the Turks. After the defeat of the Turks by Tamerlane, was returned to the Byzantine Empire. In 1423 polurazorёnnom power in the city was handed over to the Venetians sought to control the Mediterranean and its trade and economic sector. The Turks once again assaulted the city with 1426 by 1430, and in 1430 finally captured. The Greek elite experienced a complete moral and psychological decline of the Greeks massively converted to Islam, their life and the life oturechivalis. The city became part of the Ottoman Empire. At the beginning of the War of Independence of Greece, in 1821, the Greeks revolted, led Stamatios Kapsas, tried to take the fight to Thessaloniki, but to no avail. The city was reconquered by the Greeks only in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913. During the Second World War the city was occupied by German troops. In 1943, Germany was preparing to transfer the city under the control of the Union it Bulgaria, to free up troops to be sent to the Eastern Front, but did not dare to take this step after massive protests across Greece and fear spike and without mass guerrilla movement City was released the Greek People's Liberation army - ELAS October 27, 1944, the feast day of St. Demetrius, the patron saint of the city. Link: Wikipedia https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8 Who cares - subscribe to interesting channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/zzz82166able
The time has come the longest crossing 200 km in length - in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. Bulgarian-Greek border is located approximately in the middle. Before the Greek border from Blagoevgrad conducts regular road - Bulgarians until the motorway in the direction of Greece is not built. On the Bulgarian checkpoint "Kulata" say "Goodbye" Bulgaria and we drive to where ever it was not socialism. In Greek, the checkpoint "Promahon" Greek border guards when checking the documents give the green light to enter, and we continue our journey to Greece already. From Promahon already goes in the direction of Thessaloniki highway, but there is a lot that still undeveloped - there goes the usual way. Closer to Thessaloniki again goes high-class highway! And the beautiful scenery outside the window! And in Bulgaria, and Greece this site is on the same road - E79. In Greece - A5 is an international highway. Plot European route E79 connects the administrative center of Blagoevgrad Province Blagoevgrad in Bulgaria and the administrative center of the periphery (region) of Central Macedonia Thessaloniki in Greece The road between the two cities passes through Bulgaria and Greece Who cares - subscribe to interesting channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/zzz82166able
Blagoevgrad - the last Bulgarian town on the way to Greece. The administrative center of the eponymous region. He lives in Blagoevgrad, about 80 thousand people, interesting and pretty town. Blagoevgrad - a town in southwestern Bulgaria, the administrative center of the region of Blagoevgrad and Blagoevgrad community.
Population - 77 000
Former names: Gorna Dzhumaya, Skaptopara. The current name - in honor of Blagoev, the founder (1891) and leader of the Bulgarian Social-Democratic (later the Workers' Social-Democratic, communist, socialist) party.
Blagoevgrad today a regional center with a rich history, is located 100 km south of Sofia, Blagoevgrad valley (360 m above sea level). In the south-east of it - the Pirin mountain range, to the east - the Rila, and to the west - Vlahina mountain. Favorable conditions are conducive to the emergence of the Thracian civilization here approx. 300 BC. e. Mineral springs become the center of the Thracian settlement, which then attract the attention of the Romans. We know the name of the settlement - Skaptopara. With the arrival of the Slavs in the era of the Great Migration, life is extinguished here, and the data for the subsequent millennium absent.
After the Ottoman invasion in the XV century, the city repeatedly changed names - Dumas Bazaar, Dumas, Dumas Orta, Dzhumaya, Gorna Dzhumaya. Whatever the name of the city, there are always lived large Muslim population. By Christian period is the legend of the peasant from the village Marulevo, who cured the sick horse with the help of local mineral springs. Varosha - During the Bulgarian revival on the east bank of Bistrita Bulgarian part of the city was built. Residents of the city have made the sultan's firman for the construction of the church. The church of the Assumption was consecrated in 1844 and completed and painted in 50 years. Varosha is in the house of the Bulgarian revolutionary liberation movement participant George Izmirliev - Makedonchika.
In 1950, Gorna Dzhumaya was renamed in Blagoevgrad, in honor of the Bulgarian Communist lime Blagoev. In 1954, the city annexed the village of Hramada, and in 1973 - and the village Strumsko. In a remarkably short period of time, known as the "era of construction", by the end of 1980 Blagoevgrad literally transformed: a new center is equipped, reconstructed administrative buildings; changed sewerage system; constructed building of Southwestern University and the Future (1991), American University, City Hall, clinic; construction area "Georgi Izmirliev", created fountains.
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We head into the last major Bulgarian city of Blagoevgrad, after which we go already on the Bulgarian-Greek border. The distance is approximately 90 km. Road - E87 (Bulgarian State A5 motorway). Plot European route E79 connects the administrative center of the town of Pernik Pernik Province and the administrative center of Blagoevgrad Province Blagoevgrad The road between the two cities passes through the territory of Bulgaria Who cares - subscribe to interesting channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/zzz82166able
Short drive from Sofia - and we seem to find ourselves in a time portal in the eighties of the last century. All cities in Bulgaria, we have visited and still visit, never felt so the atmosphere of the former socialism in Pernik. Even buses "Ikarus" is, and trolleybuses - Soviet, which even today is full of every Ukrainian or Russian city. The feeling is. that we were in the Soviet Union. Sad nine-storey buildings. However, this city is also building a new life, albeit very slowly. It lies next to a busy highway Sofia - Thessaloniki, we pass it around and go back to the same place where the road turned to the city. Pernik - town in Bulgaria, in the Struma River, with a population of 84,827 people (as of June 16, 2008). The administrative center of Pernik region.
name of the city of Pernik (Perunika, Perinik) comes from the name of the Slavic god Perun. (The exact origin of the word Pernik found the archeologist Vasil Mihov, resulting in Pernik comes from Peru with the suffix-ik).
It was called Dimitrovo, in honor of the deceased (02.07.1949) Prime Minister Georgi Dimitrov, from 20 July 1949 to 19 January 1962, when it was restored to its former name of Pernik.
Pernik is located in the southwestern part of Bulgaria. The largest in Western Bulgaria after Sofia. It is the administrative center of the municipal district of Pernik. In the west it borders with the Republic of Serbia, in the south-west - Kyustendil, in the north - with the Sofia region and the capital Sofia. The town is at the foot of Vitosha mountain, Golo bardo and Lyulin. Height above the sea level and the city of 700 850 m.Cherez city flows the river Struma, which is considered one of the biggest rivers in Bulgaria.
The city hosts the biggest international festival in Europe - "Surva". Officially, the festival is held for the first time in 1966, but the tradition of Masquerade Games in Pernik preserved from ancient times. Holiday "Surva" exceptional phenomenon in the cultural life of the city, the mask retained its identity since ancient times. Pernik is one of the most famous carnival cities in the world.
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