Mutual Cultural Influence of Colonization and Migration

General Secondary School “Hristo Botev” - Aytos

Apollonia is an ancient Greek name of the modern town of Sozopol. The town is seaside resort located 35 km south of Burgas on the southern Black

Sea Coast of Bulgaria.

Sozopol is one of the oldest towns on Bulgarian Thrace's

Black Sea coast. The first settlement on the site dates

back to the Bronze Age. Many anchors from the second and first millennium BC have been discovered in the town's bay,

a proof of active shipping since ancient times.

In 610 BC the site of today's Sozopol was founded colony

(polis) of Miletus Greeks named Apollonia Pontica. City

name comes from the God Apollo, considered the

protector of the colony.

• Architectural and archaeological reserve Old Sozopol

• Thracian fortresses in the region of Bakarlaka

• Thracian tombs • Ancient necropolis • Walls VI-XIV century

In 1961 the Holy Synod of the church provides the building of St. Cyril and Methodius to create a museum that can be

stored and exposed archaeological materials found in Sozopol and the

surrounding area.

St. Ivan Island is a nature andarchaeological reserve. It is the largest of five islands in the Bulgarian Black

Sea coast.

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