Serdika Origins
The tribe that first settled Serdika around 2000 BCE.
Who are the Serdi?
The name Romans gave to Serdika in honor of Emperor Trajan.
What is Ulpia Serdika?
Emperor who called Serdika “my Rome.”
Who is Emperor Constantine the Great?
Century when Serdika’s first fortified walls were built.
What is the 2nd century?
City structure where Serdika’s forum was located.
What is the underpass between the Presidency and the Council of Ministers in Sofia?
What attracted the Serdi tribe and the Romans to settle in Serdika.
What are the mineral springs? (and strategic location)
The century when Serdika became part of the Roman Empire.
What is the 1st century AD?
The city where Constantine moved the capital after ruling from Serdika.
What is Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul)?
Total number of gates in the original Serdika fortress.
What is four?
Modern location of the eastern gate, renovated between 1997–1999.
What is the metro station?
What Serdika was called after Emperor Trajan renamed it.
What is Ulpia Serdika?
Two main streets in Serdika that crossed at the center.
What are the Cardo Maximus and Decumanus Maximus?
The place Emperor Constantine decided to move the capital to Constantinople.
Where is Serdika?
Century when a second outer wall was added to the fortress.
What is the 5th–6th century?
Items like pottery and old building remains were found here.
What is the west gate area?
The Serdi tribe’s homeland’s current name.
What is modern-day Bulgaria?
Serdika’s location made it a key hub for this type of network.
What is a transportation/trade network?
Constantine’s favorite place to rule before Constantinople.
What is Serdika?
Purpose of the four towers in Serdika’s fortress walls.
What is monitoring all directions for protection?
The structures near today’s Serdika subway station included these luxuries.
What are water mains, paved streets, and sewer systems?
Why Serdika was an ideal place for building a stronghold.
What is its strategic location? Cross roads between Asia and Europe.
How Serdika influenced future Roman settlements.
What is a model for urban planning and defenses?
Emperor responsible for beginning the construction of Serdika’s forum.
Who is Emperor Marcus Aurelius?
Why Serdika added an additional fortified wall in the 5th–6th centuries.
What is to defend against growing threats?
The administrative buildings in the southwest served these purposes.
What are administrative and public purposes?