The resort posters
1930s tourist advertising for the queen of the Black Sea.
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A community that speaks a Turkic language but is Orthodox Christian, living mainly in Moldova, Ukraine and north-eastern Bulgaria around Varna and Dobruja. Their origin is disputed among scholars: they may be Turks who adopted Orthodoxy, or Bulgarians who took up Turkish under Ottoman rule. What is striking is that they kept both โ a Turkic language and an Orthodox rite โ against the usual Balkan division between Turkish-speaking Muslims and Slavic-speaking Christians. Their dress and traditions are shown in Varna's museums.
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Varna's Museum of Modern History covers the city from the Ottoman liberation of 1878 to the middle of the twentieth century โ the period in which Varna turned from an Ottoman town into Bulgaria's first port and its seaside resort. The story it tells is more interesting than its title suggests. In those decades the first **railway** of modern Bulgaria reached Varna, the modern port was built, the first sea gardens were laid out, and the city became a destination for holidaymakers from across the Balkans and central Europe โ the queen of the Black Sea. The displays are mainly photographs, along with documents, furniture, shop signs and tourist posters of the 1930s โ from which the city can be read as its own people saw it. There is also a section on the **mixed communities** who lived in Varna: Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Turks and Gagauz, and their part in the city's trade and architecture. **Charges are low.**
1930s tourist advertising for the queen of the Black Sea.
Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Turks and Gagauz in one city.
Ulitsa 8 Noemvri 3, Varna