Burgas.
Ottoman Rule
It was only in the 17th century that a settlement renamed to Ahelo-Pirgas grew in the modern area of the city. It was later renamed toBurgas again and had only about 3,000 inhabitants. In the early 19th century Burgas was depopulated after raids by kurzdhali bandits. By the mid-19th century it had recovered its economic prominence through the growth of craftsmanship and the export of grain. The city was a small town in ?slimye (Sliven) sanjak in at first Rumelia Eyalet, after that in the Silistra Eyalet and Edirne Eyalet before the liberation in 1878.
In the 17th an 18 Century Burgas became an important port for Cereal and possesses its own grain measure, the Burgas-Kile. The town was the regional centre of trade an administrativ centre of the Burgas Kaaza. 1865 the Port of Burgas was after Trapezunt the second important ottoman port in the Black Sea. Burgas was at this time the major centre on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.
After the Liberation until 1945
It was a department centre in Eastern Rumelia before incorporated in the Principality of Bulgaria in 1885.
Salt and iron are also mined and traded abroad.
From the late 19th Century Burgas became an important economic and industry center. The first development plan of the city was adopted in 1891 and the oriental cityscape changed after the western model, especially through the newly constructed public buildings. In 1888, the city library was founded, in 1891 the sea garden was created and in 1897 the Cathedral of the Holy brothers Cyril and Methodius was built. In 1895 Georgi Ivanov opened the first Printing house in Burgas, followed by the house of Christo Velchevin 1897, which changed in 1900 his name in Velchevi Brothers Printing house. One of the largest Armenian communities in Bulgariawas foundet in the former Turkish quarter of the city at this time.
The opening of the railway line to Plovdiv on 27 May 1890
