Bazardjik

Bazardjik, a town of Bulgaria, 26 miles N. of Varna, has an important fair in April. Population, 9000. Founded 300 years ago, it was stormed by the Russians on 2d June 1774, and 3d June 1810.—TATAR-BAZARDJIK, a town of Eastern Roumelia, on the Upper Maritza, 23 miles W. of Philippopolis by rail, with warm baths, and 17,000 inhabitants, having greatly increased since the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78.