Editing Burgas (section)

=== Ottoman rule ===
[[File:Illustration from Views in the Ottoman Dominions by Luigi Mayer, digitally enhanced by rawpixel-com 12.jpg|thumb|Burgas in [[Ottoman Bulgaria]], painted by [[Luigi Mayer]]]]
Like many of the towns surrounding it, Burgas was conquered by the Ottomans with the rest of Bulgaria in the late 14th century, only to be [[Treaty of Gallipoli|returned]] to the Byzantine Empire during the [[Ottoman Interregnum]] and retained by the Byzantines until the fall of the Empire to the Ottomans in 1453. It was only in the 17th century that a settlement renamed to ''Ahelo-Pirgas'' grew in the modern area of the city. It was later renamed to ''Burgas'' again and had only about 3,000 inhabitants. In the early 19th century Burgas was depopulated after raids by ''kurzdhali'' bandits. By the mid-19th century it had recovered its economic prominence through the growth of craftsmanship and the export of grain.<ref>''Burgas'', ''Bulgaria (Eyewitness Travel)'', Jonathan Bousfield and Matt Willis, Dorling Kindersley Limited, [[London, England]], 2008, p. 210.</ref> The city was a small town in [[Sliven|İslimye]] (Sliven) sanjak in at first [[Rumelia Eyalet]], after that in the [[Silistra Eyalet]] and [[Edirne Eyalet]] before the liberation in 1878.

In the 17th and 18th centuries Burgas became an important port for [[cereal]] and possesses its own grain measure, the ''Burgas-Kile''. The town was the regional centre of trade and administrative centre of the Burgas Kaaza.<ref>''Etudes historiques. A l’occasion du XIII Congrés international des sciences historiques - Moscou, août 1970.'' Acad. Bulg. des sciences, 1970, p. 243 and p. 252.</ref><ref>Claude Charles De Peyssonnel: ''Traité sur le commerce de la Mer Noire'', Band 2, Cuchet, 1787, p. 151</ref><ref>Karayotov/Raychevski/Ivanov, p. 301</ref>

In 1865 the port of Burgas was after [[Trabzon|Trapezunt]] the second most important Ottoman port in the Black Sea. Burgas was at this time the major centre on the southern [[Bulgarian Black Sea Coast]].<ref>Karayotov/Raychevski/Ivanov, p. 112–113</ref><ref>Wael B. Hallaq, Donald Presgrave Little: ''Islamic studies presented to Charles J. Adams'', BRILL, 1991, S. 211</ref>