Verifiability
Data sources
Every record on the site links to a public source. Below are the main sources used and what they are for.
| Source | Used for | Limitations | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plovdiv Municipality — 2025 budget presentation | Total 2025 budget, capital programme and sector shares. | Official municipal post from the budget presentation; should be cross-checked against the adopted budget appendices when needed. | |
| Plovdiv Municipality — current projects | List of the municipality's current projects, including EU programmes. | The page does not publish a single completed/ongoing status per project. | |
| Plovdiv Municipal Council (decisions) | Budget and capital-programme decisions, including the 2026 provisional estimate. | Decisions are official but are lengthy PDF documents. | |
| TrafficNews — Plovdiv 2025 budget | Total of BGN 715,154,301, the capital programme and projects starting in 2025. | Media report based on the municipality's draft budget. | |
| Pod tepeto — 2026 capital programme | Provisional 2026 capital programme, funding sources and the two state-subsidy projects. | Provisional estimate — figures may change once the state budget is adopted. | |
| Darik — Plovdiv's first budget in euros | Context for the 2026 budget — the first prepared in euros. | Media report from the budget-voting stage. | |
| Public Procurement Register (AOP) | Verification of public tenders and contracts for specific projects. | Requires searching by a specific contracting authority or subject. | |
| OpenStreetMap | Map base layer and spatial context. | Map data is community-maintained and may be incomplete. | |
| TrafficNews — 2026 draft budget and frozen projects | Projects expected to receive 2026 funding, new projects expected to start in 2026 and projects with forecast financing of BGN 0 for 2025-2026. | Media report based on the draft budget/Appendix 3; not an official project-by-project status register. | |
| BNR — adopted Plovdiv 2019 budget | Plovdiv's 2019 total budget (BGN 341,959,020, adopted) for the multi-year trend. | Media report from the budget adoption. | |
| Plovdiv24.bg — record budget of BGN 260,702,383 | Adopted 2009 total budget and 2009 capital expenditure in the annual budget trend. | 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. | |
| Plovdiv Municipality — 2020 budget | Plovdiv's 2020 total budget (about BGN 343M) for the multi-year trend. | Official page; the figure is rounded (BGN 186M state + BGN 157M local). | |
| Marica — Plovdiv 2021 budget | Plovdiv's 2021 total budget (BGN 345,631,629, as initially adopted) for the multi-year trend. | Media report; the initially adopted amount was later updated. | |
| news.bg — adopted Plovdiv 2022 budget | Plovdiv's 2022 total budget (about BGN 526M) for the multi-year trend. | Media report; the adopted amount may differ after updates. | |
| Focus News — Plovdiv 2023 budget | Plovdiv's 2023 total budget (BGN 655,255,005) for the multi-year trend. | Media report based on the 2023 draft budget. | |
| Marica — Plovdiv 2024 budget | Plovdiv's 2024 total budget (about BGN 684M; ~BGN 29M up on 2023). | Media report; the figure is approximate. | |
| Marica — Plovdiv 2024 capital programme | Plovdiv's 2024 capital programme (BGN 123,375,273) for the by-year trend. | Media report based on the mayor's budget presentation. | |
| Plovdiv Municipality — municipal budget archive | Official index of budget documents and decisions for 2014-2025. | The page links to separate documents; older decisions are often scanned PDFs. | |
| Plovdiv Municipal Council budget decisions, 2011-2018 | Adopted total budgets for 2011-2018 and capital programmes where separately stated. | Exact URLs are stored on each budget item; some documents require visual checking because they are scans. | |
| Plovdiv Municipality — Mayors of Plovdiv | Official list of mayoral terms from 1878 to 2023. | Names and periods are published as an archive list; it does not include biographical or political metadata. | |
| Bulgarian Administrative Register — mayor of Plovdiv Municipality | Verification of the incumbent mayor and entry-into-office date as of 17 June 2026. | Current administrative register; the record may change in a future term. | |
| International Fair Plovdiv — 1892, the beginning | Historical record for the first Bulgarian Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition in Plovdiv. | Short historical PDF; not a budget document. | |
| Plovdiv 2019 — European Capital of Culture | Context for the 1999 Month of Culture and Plovdiv as the first Bulgarian European Capital of Culture. | Programme website, not a municipal budget register. | |
| Pod tepeto archive on Plovdiv 1999 European Month of Culture | Scale and programme of the 1999 European Month of Culture: participants, countries, events and related venue repairs. | Media archive article citing a contemporary Kultura newspaper report; it does not include a municipal budget or expenditure statement. | |
| European Commission — 2019 European Capitals of Culture | External verification that Plovdiv and Matera were European Capitals of Culture in 2019. | Cultural-programme notice without local budget breakdowns. | |
| Plovdiv Municipal Council Decision 58 on 2010 budget execution | Reported execution of the consolidated 2010 budget and budget-report context. | This is execution as of 31.12.2010, not the initially adopted budget; it is labelled separately in charts. | |
| Bulgarian National Audit Office financial audit of Plovdiv Municipality budget as of 30 September 2002 | Adopted 2002 budget, 2002 capital expenditure and audit caveats for execution as of 30.09.2002. | 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. | |
| Bulgarian National Audit Office audit of municipal property management and disposal, 1998-2005 | Strategic plans for 2001-2006 and 2005-2013, plus context on municipal-property management. | The document is a property-management audit, not a budget statement; it is used for governance and programme context, not budget totals. | |
| Bulgarian National Audit Office follow-up on Plovdiv Municipality financial-management audit, 2006-2008 | Follow-up measures in 2009-2010, including the 2010 annual municipal-property management programme. | The document checks implementation of recommendations, not budget amounts; some measures are reported as partial or not implemented. | |
| Functional analysis report for Plovdiv municipal administration, January 2009 | Executed capital expenditure and collected own revenue for 2005-2007; context for annual planning in 2009-2010. | Functional analysis, not a primary budget statement; the values used are specific financial indicators, not full annual budget envelopes. | |
| Plovdiv Municipality subsequent evaluation of the Municipal Development Plan 2007-2013 | Aggregate 2007-2013 capital-investment programme, expenditure structure and evaluation of the municipal development plan implementation. | 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 Municipality implementation of EU operational-programme projects, 2007-2013 | Approved Plovdiv Municipality EU operational-programme projects for 2007-2013, annual approved-project values, grants and municipal co-financing. | The post mixes submitted, approved and received-to-date values; the figures are programme/project approvals, not annual municipal budgets. | |
| Gradat — Plovdiv Municipality with a BGN 218.3M draft budget | Contemporary report on the 2008 draft budget, planned capital expenditure and specific infrastructure priorities. | 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 — infrastructure as a focus in Plovdiv's 2010 draft budget | Context for the 2010 draft budget, planned infrastructure spending and comparison with reported 2009 execution. | Secondary media source on a draft budget and planned amounts; not used as an official adopted or executed annual budget. | |
| Bulgarian National Audit Office audit report on Plovdiv Municipality 2010 annual financial report | Verification that the 2010 budget execution report was audited and certified without material errors. | The document is an old Word file and describes audit findings; concrete budget rows are taken from the Municipal Council decision. | |
| Regional History Museum Plovdiv — The role of Plovdiv Municipality in city development, 1886-1944 | Historical finance, governance and programme records for 1878-1944. | Scholarly historical study, not a primary budget register; old lev amounts are nominal and not directly comparable with modern BGN. | |
| Regional History Museum Plovdiv — Plovdiv Municipality and the building of city and tourism infrastructure, 1944-1990 | Postwar finance, governance and programme records for 1944-1990. | Scholarly historical study, not a primary budget register; socialist-period lev amounts are nominal and not directly comparable with modern BGN. | |
| Plovdiv Municipal Council Decision 32 from 28 January 2011 | Targeted infrastructure works linked to the 2009 decisions to accept baled waste from Sofia Municipality. | The decision amends earlier decisions and describes targeted funded works, not the full municipal budget. | |
| State Gazette — Council of Ministers Decree 149 from 29 June 2007 | Additional 2007 budget credits for two Plovdiv Municipality infrastructure works. | Public legal-information copy of the State Gazette act; the decree is a targeted transfer, not a full municipal budget. | |
| State Gazette — Council of Ministers Decree 72 from 30 March 2009 | Additional targeted capital-expenditure subsidy in 2009; the Plovdiv Municipality line is BGN 2M for beautification/public works. | 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. | |
| State Gazette — Council of Ministers Decree 138 from 15 July 2010 | Additional 2010 budget credits for Plovdiv Municipality infrastructure works linked to accepting baled waste. | 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. | |
| State Gazette — Council of Ministers Decree 289 from 7 December 2010 | Amendment of Decree 138 redirecting BGN 2M to major repair, reconstruction and conversion of the Plovdiv City House of Culture. | The amendment affects one line in the targeted transfer under Decree 138; it is not a standalone annual budget framework. | |
| Plovdiv Municipality — BGN 8.4M from the Council of Ministers for infrastructure | Final BGN 8,488,887 transfer and BGN 26.5M total granted for 2009-2012 in connection with Sofia's baled waste. | Short municipal post; used for the transfer amount and aggregate granted amount, not for a detailed project list. | |
| State Gazette — Council of Ministers Decree 307 from 30 November 2012 | Legal basis and list of infrastructure works attached to the final BGN 8,488,887 transfer in 2012. | Public legal-information copy of the State Gazette act; the amount is a targeted transfer, not a full budget. | |
| Plovdiv Municipal Council rule for support to gifted children | Municipal programme for one-off financial support to gifted schoolchildren, adopted in 2010. | The rule defines individual grants and procedure, but does not publish the programme's annual total budget. | |
| Wikidata | Wikidata IDs and first family/kinship relationship statements between people already present in the prosopography. | Used as a structured public source for starter relationship links; each relationship still awaits independent editorial review. | |
| Wikimedia Commons — Historical images of Plovdiv | Historical photographs, postcards, file pages and license metadata for the georeferenced archive layer and then/now pairs. | The category is an entry point; reuse terms are checked at individual Commons file level and stored on the archive JSON records. | |
| Wikimedia Commons — Bulgarian Archives State Agency cooperation files | Public-domain archive photographs and maps from Bulgarian Archives State Agency uploads used in the archive layer. | The page describes the cooperation and general archival source; specific rights and credits are preserved at Commons file level. |