Mesambria Pontica – coevolution of maritime community and coastal landscape by Hristo Preshlenov

“…As a result of the negative geodynamic processes and, above all, the destructive sea abrasion and regional seismic activity, which have reworked the sea terrace, formed at 8–15 m and the shelf terrace up to the 4–5th isobath, the following sites and buildings have been brought down and “submerged” into the sea – most of the ancient and medieval fortifications, the northern nave of the basilica “The Holy Mother of God Eleusa”, the church of “St Protomartyr Stephen”, the temple of Zeus and Hera, an early Christian basilica, whose sacred space has been renewed by the church of “St George the Old”, and the ancient theatre. …”
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