Toplofikatsiya Plovdiv Toplofikatsiya Plovdiv Toplofikatsiya Plovdiv () is the district heating company in the city of Plovdiv in Southern Bulgaria. It is one of the largest district heating networks in the country, also supplying heat energy to the town of Asenovgrad, around 10 km to the southeast, and serves a total of 35 000 customers. As of 2007, Toplofikatsiya Plovdiv is wholly owned by Austrian company EVN, which also holds the electricity distribution monopoly for the whole of southeastern Bulgaria. Since it was taken over by EVN, Toplofikatsiya Plovdiv's official name is ""EVN Toplofikatsiya Bulgaria"". Toplofikatsiya Plovdiv has two power stations –
Plovdiv institution outside the United States, the American College of Sofia, was founded in Plovdiv in 1860 and later moved to Sofia. On 5 September 2014, Plovdiv was selected as the Bulgarian host of the European Capital of Culture 2019. This happened with the help of the Municipal Foundation "Plovdiv 2019″, a non-government organization, which was established in 2011 by Plovdiv's City Council whose main objectives were to develop and to prepare Plovdiv's bid book for European Capital of Culture in 2019. Plovdiv was given various names throughout its long history. The Odrysian capital "Odryssa" () is suggested to have been