Uzundzhovo

The village lies in the agricultural Upper Thracian Plain (Northern Thrace), east of Haskovo, south of Dimitrovgrad and west of Simeonovgrad and Harmanli.

During Ottoman rule, the village was known as Uzunca ova[2] ("long meadow"),[3][4] a direct translation of the area's former Byzantine Greek appellation, Makri livada.

An architectural reminder of the village's Ottoman history can also be seen, as the local Church of the Assumption was built originally as a mosque.

It has been gathering since old times merchants from Asia Minor, Armenia, Crimea, Russia, Hungary, Poland and Germany and the trade operations during it have been very large.

The fair was visited by famous 19th-century Bulgarians such as Georgi Rakovski, Nayden Gerov, Petko Slaveykov, Dobri Chintulov, Hadzhi Dimitar and Vasil Levski.