In 2012 I spent my vacation in Nessebar, on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, and with this occasion I visited also Sozopol, situated 70 km further south (on the road, on the shores of the Gulf of Burgas; I believe that on the sea aren't more than 30 km, because just crosses the bay). Originally named Antheia, then Apollonia (Apollonia Pontica or Apollonia Magna), it's one of the oldest towns on Thrace's Black Sea coast, being founded in the 7th century BC by Greek colonists from Miletus. The town established itself as a trade and naval centre in the following centuries, but also as an important cultural centre. Ruled successively by the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Ottoman Empires, Sozopol was assigned to the newly autonomous Bulgaria in the 19th century. Almost all of its Greek population was exchanged with Bulgarians from Eastern Thrace in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars.
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