Best Travel And Vacation At Bulgaria | Nessebar With Unique Natural Environment and Cultural Heritage Ancient City

Best Travel At Bulgaria | Nessebar With Unique Natural Environment and Cultural Heritage Ancient City. Archaelogical Museum, shows a rich material culture Messambria - Messemvria - Nessebar from ancient, medieval and Renaissance. The cultural heritage of the ancient town is presented in four museum exhibitions.  Nessebar peninsula - an ancient Messambria, Messemvria called during the Middle Ages, and then Nessebar, was first settled more than three millennia ago, at the end of the Bronze Age. at session 7 of the World Heritage Committee in Florence in 1983, Old Town Nessebar is the only Bulgarian town on the list of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. The Thracians anciant Melsambria use to call it, which means the city Melsa, legendary founder of the settlement. Messambria has two ports are comfortable - the northern and the southern one, where the current piece of equipment even ancient vessels can still be found. The first city to be part of the Bulgarian state in 812, when Khan Kroum invaded and conquered, and the Slavs and Bulgarians settled here. Nessebar like Slavs called it remains in the hands of Bulgaria for a longer period during the reign of Tsar Simeon the Great.

Messambria began to mint its own coins about 440 BC the year. This culminated in the 3th - the 2nd century BC, when the gold coin was first printed. The city maintained good commercial contacts with polises along the Black Sea, Aegean and Mediterranean. In the late 6th century BC, Greek colonists first arrived - Dorie originated. The city gradually evolved, temples, gymnasiums and a theater is built. The material evidence of the economic, cultural and spiritual-rich city is finding many forms of this period, exhibited in museums Archaelogical city. Messemvria as it was called at that time, with the castle walls and large public buildings were preserved intact, continued to mint its own bronze coins and remains a center of commercial and cultural significance along the Black Sea coast of Roman Thrace. In 72 BC the city was captured without resistance by the Roman army.  After a brief occupation, he became part of the Roman Empire in the early first century.

After nearly 40 years of Byzantine domination, Nessebar Bulgaria back into the country in 1304 by Tsar Todor Svetoslav. The city experienced a huge explosion in the reign of Tsar Ivan Alexander. In 1366 the city was captured by the knights of Count Amedeo in Savoya, and then submit to the Byzantine emperor. The city was first invaded by the Ottoman Turks in 1396. Eventually become part of the Ottoman Empire together with Constantinopol capital in 1453.  Nessebar harbor continues to be the main import and export center in the Black Sea coast. Some monasteries Nessebar and active scriptoria to 18 - the 19th century. Many houses from the Renaissance period preserved in Nessebar Bulgaria - a typical example of architecture of the Black Sea, a few windmills are many, who worked at the baths of the city, community and fountains. For centuries the Ottoman domination, economic and cultural life does not stop. The church was built and decorated, painted icons.