Varna is Bulgaria's third largest city. It
was an inhabited place even before the Greeks established the colony of
Odessos there about 580 B.C. Later, under the Romans and their
successors, the Slavs, Varna became a major port trading with
Constantinople, Venice and Dubrovnik. In 1393 it was captured by the
Turks, who made it an important military centre.
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