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Komatevo

the village of 1477 that became a southern quarter

Documented as early as 1477, Komatevo was a village of Christian voynugans with Ottoman-era privileges — keepers of horses for the sultans' campaigns. Joined to Plovdiv in 1969, it keeps its village grid, its three churches of three confessions, and the traces of a 5th-century early-Christian basilica.

Where the name comes from

Legend has a passing sultan calling it "a village small as a komat (a hunk of bread)"; the sources note, however, that the link is uncertain.

Getting there

At the city's south-western edge by the Ring Road; reached by bus along Komatevsko Shose.

Markers show approximate locations, not official boundaries.

Quarter timeline

  1. 5th century

    The basilica

    A three-nave early-Christian basilica rises over an older structure — the settlement's earliest page.

  2. 1477

    First record

    The village appears in Ottoman registers: privileged Christian voynugans maintain horses for the sultans' campaigns.

  3. 1912

    The volunteers

    Four Komatevo men volunteer in the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Corps.

  4. 1969

    A Plovdiv quarter

    The village is annexed to the city; today Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant churches share the quarter.