Gulf of Burgas

42.50115127.525473Koordinaten: 42 ° 30 '4 " N, 27 ° 31' 32" E

The Bay of Burgas and the Gulf of Burgas ( Bulgarian Бургаски залив / Burgaski zaliw ) is a facility located in the Western Black Sea larger bay. She wears since 1784 the name of the port city of Burgas and is Bulgaria's largest and one of the biggest in the Black Sea at all. Other cities that are in the bay, are Sozopol, Pomorie and Nessebar. The Bay of Burgas is the westernmost point of the Black Sea.

The Frenchman André- Joseph Lafitte - Clavé, who visited as part of an Ottoman Reform Commission the eastern Black Sea, designated in 1784 Burgas principal town in the bay and the first bay under the name Bay of Bourgas, with the remark that these previously bay was known of Poros. Also occasionally after 1784, it was regarded as a bay of Poros or Bay of Foros, after the port of Poros / Foros ( Kraimorie today, District Bourgas ) refers.

The bay narrows to the west where it adjoins the castle Asseen. The northernmost point of the Burgasbucht is the Emine cape, the southernmost Cape Maslen Nos. In the Bay are several islands. Of the islands of Sveti Ivan and Sweta Anastasia are the greatest.

Pictures

Panoramic views of the southern Sosopolbucht

The islands in the bay at Sozopol.

The western point of the castle Asseen