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The city was established in the 4th to the 5the Century AD by as a colony by Apollonia Pontica (Созопол, Sozopol) in opposition to the influence and import of Mesambria (Несебър, Nesebur). It was located by a bay some three to four kilometres NW of today’s Pomorie in the Paleokastro area of the western shore of the Pontos Eyxeinos (PE, the Black Sea). To improve security, the Byzantines relocated the city in the late 8th Century to the neighbouring peninsula where it had the name (variously denoted) of Anhialo until being renamed Pomorie in 1934. In the early and later Middle Ages, the city was among the more important trading and political centres in its part of the РЕ. Ahelo/Anhialo was also the subject of frequent raids, particularly after the establishment of the Bulgarian state in the 7th Century. It changed hands between the Bulgarian state and Byzantium on many occasions. In the 14th and up to the mid-15th Centuries, the city’s harbour was a centre of trading and exports of wheat (mainly with and to Genoa and Venice) and of locally harvested sea salt. It came into the Ottoman Empire in the mid-15th Century.