An industrial and commercial city in southern Bulgaria; population 347,600 (2008). Known to the ancient Greeks as Philippopolis and to the Romans as Trimontium, it assumed its present name after the First World War.
Definition of Plovdiv in US English:
Plovdiv
proper nounˈplôvˌdif
An industrial and commercial city in southern Bulgaria; population 347,600 (2008). Known to the ancient Greeks as Philippopolis and to the Romans as Trimontium, it assumed its present name after World War I.