Sunny Beach – 6km sandy beach – with 255 sunny days – приема първите си гости от соц блока 1958. St Vlas village – was 1000 people - grew immensely with the tourist and property boom of the area. Remember frequent power cuts.
Ravda village – same thing. One cannot tell where one ends, and the other one starts.
NESEBAR – UNESCO Site 1983 - 12,000 people
90% in new part, on mainland, surrounded by natural dunes.
10% in OLD TOWN – Peninsula (also a Promontory/Cape) - 850m/350m, 25m above sea.
Провлак/Isthmus - 400m. B4 it was fortified it was often swept away by high waves, cutting off the old town from the mainland.
Considerably larger in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC when 1st settlement appeared.
More than 1/3 is now underwater – due to land erosion (NE storms) and higher sea level.
Eдин от най-древните градове на Европа, основан преди 3200 години.
I. THRACIAN PERIOD – 15th cent. BC - Менамбрия – Мена-брия
First fortress walls – 8-6th cent. BC.
They knew the sea very well. The heavy stone anchors that were found suggest of advanced shipbuilding and shipping in general.
II. GREEK PERIOD – 6th cent. BC - Messemvria
Name Messemvria appears for the first time in the “Histories” of Herodotus (5th century BC).
Greek walls from 4-3rd cent. BC in the NW end, built on top of Thracian walls from 8-6th cent. BC.
Greek colonization of the Western Black Sea coast. Menabria was occupied by Dorian Greeks from Megara (present day Athens), Calchedon and Byzantion (present day Istanbul).
It’s not clear if the town was conquered, bought or taken without any resistance.
It was the only Greek polis on the Bulgarian coast founded by Dorian Greeks.
III. Roman Period – end of 1-5th cent. The town declined in the periphery of the empire (395 splitting of empire)
IV. Byzantine Period – (476 end of Rome) 5-7th cent. Flourishes - being close to Constantinople (new capital from 330). Best preserved walls in Opus Mixtum at the gate (there were 6 towers) and SE coast. The western wall went north & south into the water and served as a pier.
V. Bulgarian Period – 8th cent. excl. 14-19th cent. when under Turkish rule
След като Римската империя мести столицата си в Константинопол (330г), а християнската религия става официална (381г), в Месемврия започват да се строят много християнски храмове.
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