Mangalia

Mangalia is a city and a port at the coast of the Black Sea inside the south-east of Constanța County, Romania. The municipality of Mangalia also administers numerous summer season seaside resorts: Cap Aurora, Jupiter, Neptun, Olimp, Saturn, Venus. The Greek town Callatis existed until the mid 7th century underneath this call. Life within the metropolis resumed from the 10th century. In the 13th century Callatis got here to be referred to as Pangalia. The Vlachs referred to as it Tomisovara and the Greeks known as it Panglicara. From the 16th century the city had acquired its present name, Mangalia. A Greek colony named Callatis turned into based within the 6th century BC by means of the town of Heraclea Pontica.

Its first silver coinage become minted around 350 BC. In 72 BC, Callatis become conquered by the Roman popular Lucullus and changed into assigned to the Roman province of Moesia Inferior. Throughout the second century AD, the metropolis built protective fortifications and the minting of coinage below the Roman emperors Septimius Severus and Caracalla endured. Callatis suffered multiple invasions in the third century AD but recovered within the 4th century AD to regain its popularity as an vital change hub and port metropolis. From the 7th to the 11th century the city become beneath the rule of thumb of the First Bulgarian Empire.