Serdica (Sofia)

History

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  Thracian town, named after the original inhabitants, the Serdi
• After 342/341 BCE: briefly occupied by Philip II and Alexander the Great
• 29 BCE: occupied by the Romans
• Rank of municipium during the reign of Trajan (r.98-117): Municipium Ulpia Serdica
• Diocletian: capital of Dacia Mediterranea
• 311 Galerius ends the Diocletianic Persecution of Christianity.
• 343 Council of Serdica (site of Byzantine church St Sofia)
• 447 sacked by the Huns
• Justinian: new wall, renamed Triaditsa
• Byzantine until early ninth century

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Archaeology

• City wall
• Baths
• Basilica
• Bouleuterion
• Churches