Philippo'polis

Philippo'polis, capital of Eastern Roumelia or Southern Bulgaria, on the navigable Maritza, 110 miles by rail W. by N. of Adrianople. It manufactures silk, cotton, tobacco, leather, &c., and prepares and exports otto of roses (to the value of £55,000). Pop. (1893) 36,033, of whom nearly half are Turks, Greeks, and others than Bulgarians. An outpost of the Macedonian kingdom, it was ruined by the Goths, captured by the Turks (1363), destroyed by an earthquake (1818), burned (1846), and occupied by the Russians (1878).