History
Blagoevgrad Province was originally part of ancient Thrace and inhabited by the Thracian tribe Maedi. Alexander the Great founded his first town/colony Alexandrupolis in 340 BC. Afterwards the town was probably destroyed by a local Thracian raid.
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