The town of Topolovgrad (Haskovo District) is located in South-Central Bulgaria and is municipal center of Topolovgrad municipality. It is situated at the northern foot of the Sakar Mountain, 27 km to the southwest of the town of Elhovo. The region has been populated ever since antiquity. The first written evidence of the existence of Topolovgrad dates to the 16th c. when the town, then named as Kavukli (from Turkish kavak, "poplar"). The Bulgarian name Topolovgrad (topola is "poplar" in Bulgarian) is from 1934. Around year of 1925 near 4,000 Greeks emigrated from the town and its surroundings and Bulgarian refugees from Western Thrace, Eastern Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia coming at their place.