Varna Bulgaria Amazing Walking Streets from The Black Sea to Cathedral

Varna is the largest city in northeastern Bulgaria, located on the shores of the Black Sea and Varna Lake and is the administrative center of the homonymous municipality and district. It is the largest city in Northern Bulgaria and on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, as well as the third largest in the country. According to the GRAO, the current population is 348,712 people, and the permanent address is 369,553 people (as of March 15, 2023).[2] On its territory is located the Admiralty of the Bulgarian Army. Varna is often referred to as the "sea capital"[3] or "summer capital of Bulgaria"[4][5] and is an important tourist and educational center, a starting point for the resorts along the Northern Black Sea coast.

A golden treasure from the Chalcolithic Age is stored in the town, which until the excavations of the City of Birds near Pazardzhik is believed to be the oldest gold treasure in the world, which gave the name of the so-called. Culture Varna.[6] After excavations were made in the "city of birds" near Pazardzhik, it was found that the processed gold found there is 200-300 years older than the objects in the Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis.[7] The International Ballet Competition is held in Varna, held every two years at the Summer Theater of Varna during the summer season.[8][9]

Varna is a candidate for European Youth Capital 2016 and European Capital of Culture 2019.[10] Among the international cultural events that take place in the city are the festivals Varna Summer, Love is Folly, The Golden Dolphin, August in the Arts, Videoholica and others.

In ancient times, the city was named Odessos. This is what Theophanes called Odessopolis, and in other authors it is also found as Ulisopolis. After the 14th century in historical documents the name Odessos disappeared. During the reign of Emperor Tiberius (27-AD), the city was briefly called Tiberiopolis. In his research, archaeologist Pavel Georgiev[11] He points out that there is an inscription from 557, in which, after the death of his wife Theodora, Emperor Justinian dedicated to her a city that he named Theodoriada, located on the northern shore of Varna Lake. During the reign of Empress Irene at the end of the the century, he also briefly bore her name, Irinopolis.

It is assumed that its current name comes from the Old Bulgarian * varna – "black, vran".[12] Another theory associates the name with the word "lime", meaning waters and mineral spring.[13] The first mention of the name Varna is in the annals of the offensive of the ruler Asparuh and his troops, who "... They came to the so-called. Varna, near Odessos..." and the settlement of the Proto-Bulgarians in these places, but it is not clear whether the name refers to an area, a settlement or a river. Theophanes writes that in 774 Emperor Constantine V went by sea on a campaign against the Proto-Bulgarians, but when he came to Varna he was frightened and returned. Konstantin Irechek believes that this name belonged not to the old town of Odessos, but to an area in the vicinity, to the Provadiyska River and Devnya Lake. Konstantin Porfirogen writes that Varna is a river, the same is the opinion of A. Vretos. On the other hand, in 765, Nicephorus reported that the kavkhan of Khan Umar had been killed by his servants in Varna. This murder could not have happened in old Odessos, as it is considered to still be a Byzantine possession. Maybe Varna is some kind of settlement around Devnya Lake. According to the Shkorpil brothers, there was a Thracian settlement named Varna on the shore of the lake, in the area under "Dzhanavara", where many archaeological materials are found today. Dimitar Dimitrov believes that Varna was a settlement in the western part of today's town, where there are necropolises from the time of the Chalcolithic. The Shkorpil brothers are looking for the Thracian root named Varnas.[14] At the beginning of the 20th century, Archimandrite Inokentiy in his studies mentioned that the name Varna comes from the Hunno-Avar word varosh, meaning city. Krustyu Mirski suggests that the name comes from lime, limestone, given that "in Varna and its surroundings the land and stones are calcareous..."

Between December 20, 1949 and October 20, 1956, Varna was named Stalin, after Joseph Stalin.[15][16]



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