PRE-HISTORICAL DEULTUM

The southeast region of Bulgaria is still poorly researched for traces of human life during the pre-historical ages. This is why, the gathered amount of artifacts, throughout the past decades, from the sites near the village of Debelt, have a high scientific value . Read more

THRACIAN DOBELT

Nearly forty years ago the idea that the name of the ancient city Deultum has a Thracian origin and means "place between two swamps” was published. Besides the list of arguments in a purely linguistic publication, it was focused also on the characteristics of the local terrain - low hill, located between large the Burgas marshes, drained in the 20's of the last century. Read more

ROMAN DEULTUM

During the time of emperor Vespasianus (69-79 A.D.) over the north shore of the river Sredecka, the colony of military veterans from the VIII Augusts’ legion, was found. The name of the new city was Colonia Flavia Pacis Deultensium. Those legionaries were distinguished during the putting down of the great rebellion in Judas and during the civil war for the confirmation of the new emperor’s authority. According to evaluations done by professor B.Gerov the starting population of the town was from four hundred to around eight hundred people. This is only colony of this type on our countries territory. Read more

BYZANTIUM DEVELT

Complicated processes and violent developments during the V – ІХ A.D. in the Eastern Roman Empire called Byzantium, reflect over the fate of the Develt. The city was destroyed several times by different tribes: Goths, Huns, Avars and Slavs. In the beginning of the VІ A.D., a rebellion took place in the region under the command of Vitalian. All of that was accompanied by military actions. In the first half of the next century, the region of the Burgas lakes including Develt was systematically robbed, over the period of several months, by the international army of the khanate of the Avars. Read more

BULGARIAN DEBELT

In 813 A.D. the armies of the Bulgarian Khan Krum have overtaken Debelt. According to Byzantium chroniclers the citizens were deported to distant lands, and in their place Bulgarians were brought. The important meaning, which the Bulgarian ruler gave to this station, is seen in a text by the famous Suleyman Koy inscription. In it Debelt is a defined as the centre of the “left wing of my country”. According to the peace settlement in 815 A. D., between Khan Omurtag and Justinian II, the border between the two countries began in Debelt, while the lands to the north of the Mandren Lake remained Bulgarian. Read more