Excursions to Plovdiv and Pleven during the Fulbright Scholar Visit to Sofia Bulgaria November 15-27, 2003
The Roman Theatre in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. An important city in the Roman Empire
The Plovdiv Historical Museum housed in a building that once was a private house
The modern main street of Plovdiv under which is the Roman amphitheater where gladiators fought each other and lions.
The Roman amphitheater under the streets of modern Plovdiv. The entrance for the lions is seen in the center many feet below the street
Terry standing by the passage way for the gladiators and lions to enter. Only one small end of the amphitheater has been excavated.
Today a mosque sits on top of the Roman amphitheater representing the hundreds of years of Ottoman (Turkey) rule of what is now Bulgaria.
Over Terry's shoulder is what remains of one of the many mounds around Plovdiv representing the mount building culture of Thrace that preceded the Romans and existed about the same time native Americans were building mounds in the what is now the United States.
The following week Terry went to Pleven in search of the library of a famous Bulgarian librarian, Nenkoff. His original library building, now a theatre, is in the photo below.
Terry and Toni (LIS Doctoral Student) stand on the steps to the original library in Pleven
Terry at the entrance of the current Chitalishte, the social library and community center that Nenkoff had founded. There was mention in this plaque of his successor, but none of Nenkoff at the current building
The staff at the current library of Nenkoff's
See photos of the lectures at University of Sofia at: Sofia03
For an excursion to Sofia and Bachkovo Monastery, click on: Sofia and Bachkovo Monastery
For photos of people I met on the trip, see: People
Photos from Terry's first trip to Bulgaria (April, 2000) may be seen at: http://cpanel.ischool.illinois.edu/~weech/sofia/sofia-libraries00.htm
Photos from Terry's second trip to Bulgaria (November, 2000) can be seen at: Sofia-November2000
Photos of Terry's third trip to Bulgaria can be found at: Sofia2002
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