The islet on which it stood is now connected with the mainland by a narrow tongue of land. Bonn, I, 326) speaks of it as a large and populous town. The Tabula Peutinger shows Apollonia but the " Periplus Ponti Euxini", 85, and the Notitiæ episcopatuum have only the later name Sozopolis. It kept strong political and trade relations with the cities of Ancient Greece – Miletus, Athens, Corinth, Heraclea Pontica and the islands Rhodes, Chios, Lesbos, etc.Ĥth century BC Apollonia Pontica tetradrachm showing Apollo and an upright anchor One from the Late Archaic Greece and the other from the Early Classical Greece. There were two temples of Apollo Iatros ( Ancient Greek: Ἀπόλλων Ἰατρός), meaning healer in Greek. The name was changed to Apollonia, on account of a temple dedicated to Apollo in the town. Apollonia became a legendary trading rival of another Greek colony, Mesembria, today's Nessebar. Its trade influence in the Thracian territories was based on a treaty dating from the fifth century BC with the Odrysian kingdom, the most powerful Thracian state. The town established itself as a trade and naval centre in the following centuries and became one of the largest and richest Greek colonies in the Black Sea region. The town was founded in the 7th century BC by Greek colonists from Miletus as Antheia ( Ancient Greek: Ἄνθεια). 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. Undersea explorations in the region of the port reveal relics of dwellings, ceramic pottery, stone and bone tools from that era. The first settlement on the site dates back to the Bronze Age. Sozopol is one of the oldest towns on Bulgarian Thrace's Black Sea coast. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.Ī reconstructed gate part of Sozopol's ancient fortifications.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 9,271 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the German article.During the Ottoman rule the town was known as Sizebolu, Sizeboli or Sizebolou. By the first century AD, the name Sozopolis (Σωζόπολις) began to appear in written records. At various times, Apollonia was known as Apollonia Pontica (Ἀπολλωνία ἡ Ποντική, that is, "Apollonia on the Black Sea", the ancient Pontus Euxinus) and Apollonia Magna ("Great Apollonia"). The original name of the city is attested as Antheia (Ἄνθεια in Greek) but was soon renamed to Apollonia (Ἀπολλωνία). Part of Burgas Province and administrative centre of the homonymous Sozopol Municipality, as of December 2009, the town has a population of 5,410 inhabitants. The busiest times of the year are the summer months, ranging from May to September as tourists from around the world come to enjoy the weather, sandy beaches, history and culture, fusion cuisine ( Balkan and Mediterranean), and atmosphere of the colourful resort. Today it is one of the major seaside resorts in the country, known for the Apollonia art and film festival (which takes place in early September) that is named after one of the town's ancient names. Sozopol ( Bulgarian: Созопол, Greek: Σωζόπολη, romanized: Sozopoli) is an ancient seaside town located 35 km south of Burgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.
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