Verifiability
Every record on the site links to a public source. Below are the main sources used and what they are for.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Total 2025 budget, capital programme and sector shares.
Limitations
Official municipal post from the budget presentation; should be cross-checked against the adopted budget appendices when needed.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: List of the municipality's current projects, including EU programmes.
Limitations
The page does not publish a single completed/ongoing status per project.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Budget and capital-programme decisions, including the 2026 provisional estimate.
Limitations
Decisions are official but are lengthy PDF documents.
aop.bg
Used for: Verification of public tenders and contracts for specific projects.
Limitations
Requires searching by a specific contracting authority or subject.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Plovdiv's 2020 total budget (about BGN 343M) for the multi-year trend.
Limitations
Official page; the figure is rounded (BGN 186M state + BGN 157M local).
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Official index of budget documents and decisions for 2014-2025.
Limitations
The page links to separate documents; older decisions are often scanned PDFs.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Adopted total budgets for 2011-2018 and capital programmes where separately stated.
Limitations
Exact URLs are stored on each budget item; some documents require visual checking because they are scans.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Official list of mayoral terms from 1878 to 2023.
Limitations
Names and periods are published as an archive list; it does not include biographical or political metadata.
iisda.government.bg
Used for: Verification of the incumbent mayor and entry-into-office date as of 17 June 2026.
Limitations
Current administrative register; the record may change in a future term.
fair.bg
Used for: Historical record for the first Bulgarian Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition in Plovdiv.
Limitations
Short historical PDF; not a budget document.
plovdiv2019.eu
Used for: Context for the 1999 Month of Culture and Plovdiv as the first Bulgarian European Capital of Culture.
Limitations
Programme website, not a municipal budget register.
culture.ec.europa.eu
Used for: External verification that Plovdiv and Matera were European Capitals of Culture in 2019.
Limitations
Cultural-programme notice without local budget breakdowns.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Reported execution of the consolidated 2010 budget and budget-report context.
Limitations
This is execution as of 31.12.2010, not the initially adopted budget; it is labelled separately in charts.
bulnao.government.bg
Used for: Adopted 2002 budget, 2002 capital expenditure and audit caveats for execution as of 30.09.2002.
Limitations
The document is an old Word file and audits execution only for 01.01-30.09.2002; charts use the cited adopted annual budget values, not the partial nine-month execution.
bulnao.government.bg
Used for: Strategic plans for 2001-2006 and 2005-2013, plus context on municipal-property management.
Limitations
The document is a property-management audit, not a budget statement; it is used for governance and programme context, not budget totals.
bulnao.government.bg
Used for: Follow-up measures in 2009-2010, including the 2010 annual municipal-property management programme.
Limitations
The document checks implementation of recommendations, not budget amounts; some measures are reported as partial or not implemented.
strategy.bg
Used for: Executed capital expenditure and collected own revenue for 2005-2007; context for annual planning in 2009-2010.
Limitations
Functional analysis, not a primary budget statement; the values used are specific financial indicators, not full annual budget envelopes.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Aggregate 2007-2013 capital-investment programme, expenditure structure and evaluation of the municipal development plan implementation.
Limitations
Scanned report checked with OCR and visual page review; used only for clearly readable aggregate values, not to extract individual rows from dense tables.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Approved Plovdiv Municipality EU operational-programme projects for 2007-2013, annual approved-project values, grants and municipal co-financing.
Limitations
The post mixes submitted, approved and received-to-date values; the figures are programme/project approvals, not annual municipal budgets.
bulnao.government.bg
Used for: Verification that the 2010 budget execution report was audited and certified without material errors.
Limitations
The document is an old Word file and describes audit findings; concrete budget rows are taken from the Municipal Council decision.
rimplovdiv.com
Used for: Historical finance, governance and programme records for 1878-1944.
Limitations
Scholarly historical study, not a primary budget register; old lev amounts are nominal and not directly comparable with modern BGN.
rimplovdiv.com
Used for: Postwar finance, governance and programme records for 1944-1990.
Limitations
Scholarly historical study, not a primary budget register; socialist-period lev amounts are nominal and not directly comparable with modern BGN.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Targeted infrastructure works linked to the 2009 decisions to accept baled waste from Sofia Municipality.
Limitations
The decision amends earlier decisions and describes targeted funded works, not the full municipal budget.
ciela.net
Used for: Additional 2007 budget credits for two Plovdiv Municipality infrastructure works.
Limitations
Public legal-information copy of the State Gazette act; the decree is a targeted transfer, not a full municipal budget.
dv.parliament.bg
Used for: Additional targeted capital-expenditure subsidy in 2009; the Plovdiv Municipality line is BGN 2M for beautification/public works.
Limitations
Large State Gazette HTML copy; the specific Plovdiv row was checked against the tabular legal-information copy. This is a targeted subsidy, not a municipal budget.
dv.parliament.bg
Used for: Additional 2010 budget credits for Plovdiv Municipality infrastructure works linked to accepting baled waste.
Limitations
The decree is a targeted transfer for specific works, not an annual municipal budget; one project line was amended by Decree 289 in December 2010.
dv.parliament.bg
Used for: Amendment of Decree 138 redirecting BGN 2M to major repair, reconstruction and conversion of the Plovdiv City House of Culture.
Limitations
The amendment affects one line in the targeted transfer under Decree 138; it is not a standalone annual budget framework.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Final BGN 8,488,887 transfer and BGN 26.5M total granted for 2009-2012 in connection with Sofia's baled waste.
Limitations
Short municipal post; used for the transfer amount and aggregate granted amount, not for a detailed project list.
ciela.net
Used for: Legal basis and list of infrastructure works attached to the final BGN 8,488,887 transfer in 2012.
Limitations
Public legal-information copy of the State Gazette act; the amount is a targeted transfer, not a full budget.
plovdiv.bg
Used for: Municipal programme for one-off financial support to gifted schoolchildren, adopted in 2010.
Limitations
The rule defines individual grants and procedure, but does not publish the programme's annual total budget.
plovdiv2019.eu
Used for: The 2014 launch, open calls, and support for studios, galleries, and creative spaces in Kapana.
Limitations
Official Plovdiv 2019 Foundation project page; it documents the creative-district programme rather than the quarter's complete history.
trafficnews.bg
Used for: Total of BGN 715,154,301, the capital programme and projects starting in 2025.
Limitations
Media report based on the municipality's draft budget.
podtepeto.com
Used for: Provisional 2026 capital programme, funding sources and the two state-subsidy projects.
Limitations
Provisional estimate — figures may change once the state budget is adopted.
darik.bg
Used for: Context for the 2026 budget — the first prepared in euros.
Limitations
Media report from the budget-voting stage.
trafficnews.bg
Used for: Projects expected to receive 2026 funding, new projects expected to start in 2026 and projects with forecast financing of BGN 0 for 2025-2026.
Limitations
Media report based on the draft budget/Appendix 3; not an official project-by-project status register.
old-news.bnr.bg
Used for: Plovdiv's 2019 total budget (BGN 341,959,020, adopted) for the multi-year trend.
Limitations
Media report from the budget adoption.
plovdiv24.bg
Used for: Adopted 2009 total budget and 2009 capital expenditure in the annual budget trend.
Limitations
Contemporary media report from the budget vote; the official 2009 decision/appendices were not found in the public budget archive as of 17 June 2026.
marica.bg
Used for: Plovdiv's 2021 total budget (BGN 345,631,629, as initially adopted) for the multi-year trend.
Limitations
Media report; the initially adopted amount was later updated.
news.bg
Used for: Plovdiv's 2022 total budget (about BGN 526M) for the multi-year trend.
Limitations
Media report; the adopted amount may differ after updates.
focus-news.net
Used for: Plovdiv's 2023 total budget (BGN 655,255,005) for the multi-year trend.
Limitations
Media report based on the 2023 draft budget.
marica.bg
Used for: Plovdiv's 2024 total budget (about BGN 684M; ~BGN 29M up on 2023).
Limitations
Media report; the figure is approximate.
marica.bg
Used for: Plovdiv's 2024 capital programme (BGN 123,375,273) for the by-year trend.
Limitations
Media report based on the mayor's budget presentation.
podtepeto.com
Used for: Scale and programme of the 1999 European Month of Culture: participants, countries, events and related venue repairs.
Limitations
Media archive article citing a contemporary Kultura newspaper report; it does not include a municipal budget or expenditure statement.
gradat.bg
Used for: Contemporary report on the 2008 draft budget, planned capital expenditure and specific infrastructure priorities.
Limitations
This is a secondary media source on a draft budget, not an official adopted or executed budget decision; the record is archive context and is not used as an annual budget total.
gradat.bg
Used for: Context for the 2010 draft budget, planned infrastructure spending and comparison with reported 2009 execution.
Limitations
Secondary media source on a draft budget and planned amounts; not used as an official adopted or executed annual budget.
visitkapana.bg
Used for: The 1906 fire, the 1970s clearance plan, and the subsequent preservation and renewal of Kapana.
Limitations
Public history article from the Visit Kapana project; exact dates and quantities remain subject to editorial cross-checking with municipal archives.
podtepeto.com
Used for: The mayor's report on the 1957 flood, more than 10,000 people left homeless, and the subsequent construction of hundreds of dwellings.
Limitations
Journalistic account based on a surviving mayoral report; used for scale and urban consequences without substituting for the primary document.
podtepeto.com
Used for: The construction of several hundred Stolipinovo dwellings for Roma families affected by the 1957 flood.
Limitations
Journalistic public-history article; outdated terminology for the Roma community in the original is not reproduced.
bg.wikipedia.org
Used for: Kapana's name, early development, craft streets, and historical chronology.
Limitations
General secondary source; used as an overview and supplemented by Visit Kapana and Plovdiv 2019 project pages.
oldplovdiv.bg
Used for: Dr Stoyan Chomakov House, the permanent exhibition since 1984, and Zlatyu Boyadzhiev's two creative periods.
Limitations
Official Old Plovdiv municipal institute page for the building and permanent exhibition.
visitplovdiv.com
Used for: The creation of Tsar Simeon Garden by Lucien Chevalas on an old Turkish cemetery for the 1892 exhibition.
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Official Plovdiv municipal tourism page; used for the park's history and its connection to the exhibition.
libplovdiv.com
Used for: The Ivan Vazov Public Library's move into its present purpose-built home in 1974.
Limitations
Official library page about the current building; it is not a chronicle of the 1928 earthquake damage.
openstreetmap.org
Used for: Map base layer and spatial context.
Limitations
Map data is community-maintained and may be incomplete.
wikidata.org
Used for: Wikidata IDs and first family/kinship relationship statements between people already present in the prosopography.
Limitations
Used as a structured public source for starter relationship links; each relationship still awaits independent editorial review.
commons.wikimedia.org
Used for: Historical photographs, postcards, file pages and license metadata for the georeferenced archive layer and then/now pairs.
Limitations
The category is an entry point; reuse terms are checked at individual Commons file level and stored on the archive JSON records.
commons.wikimedia.org
Used for: Public-domain archive photographs and maps from Bulgarian Archives State Agency uploads used in the archive layer.
Limitations
The page describes the cooperation and general archival source; specific rights and credits are preserved at Commons file level.