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Burgas (, ), sometimes transliterated as Bourgas, is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and the fourth-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna, with a population of 211,033 inhabitants, while 277,922 live in its urban area. It is the capital of Burgas Province and an important industrial, transport, cultural and tourist centre.
The city is surrounded by the Burgas Lakes and located at the westernmost point of the Black Sea, at the large Burgas Bay. The LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas is the largest oil refinery in southeastern Europe and the largest industrial enterprise. The Port of Burgas is the largest port in Bulgaria, and Burgas Airport is the second most important in the country. Burgas is the center of the Bulgarian fishing and fish processing industry.
Burgas is a city in Bulgaria that is the major city for the Burgas Province.
Burgas, Burgaz or Bourgas may also refer to:
- As Burgas, hot springs in Ourense, Spain
- Gulf of Burgas, a Gulf in the Black Sea
- Burgas Lakes, a group of coastal lakes of varying saltiness located around the Bulgarian city of Burgas
- Lake Burgas, a natural lake in Bulgaria
- Burgas Peninsula, a peninsula of Livingston Island in Antarctica
- Burgas Airport, a Bulgarian Airport
- Spirit of Burgas, a summer music festival
- Burgazada, an Island in the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul.
- Lüleburgaz, a town in Turkey
- Burgazada Synagogue, a Synagogue in Istanbul
Usage examples of "burgas".
His lands were near Burgas, close to Varna, an area often threatened by my brother.
Personnel involved in these operations are mostly non-Bulgarians, but are given storage and accommodation facilities in Varna and Burgas on the Black Sea.
The principal seats of the export trade are Varna, Burgas and Baltchik on the Black Sea, and Svishtov, Rustchuk, Nikopolis, Silistria, Rakhovo, and Vidin on the Danube.
Turkish frontier, but the government is making great efforts to divert the trade to Varna and Burgas, and important harbour works have been carried out at both these ports.
The new port of Burgas was formally opened in 1904, that of Varna in 1906.
Firmilian, a Servian prelate, to the important see of Uskub at the instance of Russia, the suspected designs of that power on the ports of Varna and Burgas, and her unsympathetic attitude in regard to the Macedonian Question, tended to diminish her popularity and that of the government.
Despite its small population and the rivalry of Varna and the Turkish port of Dedeagatch, Burgas has a considerable transit trade.