Kavala is a town in northern Greece, which is the most important port in East Macedonia and Thrace. The city has a millennial history, and most sources claim that Kavala originated in the mid-7th century BC.
Today the city is a mixture of ancient, Byzantine, Ottoman and Greek culture and impresses tourists with numerous historical monuments and its unique location on hills and rocks that literally bend over the Aegean Sea or the Aegean Sea.
Kavala is near the Bulgarian border and can be viewed within one day. The city is also ideal for a weekend visit because there are several nice beaches around it, and only an hour by ferry is the island of Thassos.
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The Bulgarian trail in Kavala
Kavala was liberated from Ottoman rule by the voivods of the Macedonian-Adrianople Corps Mihail Chakov, Peyo Yavorov, Yonko Vaptsarov and Hristo Chernopeev on October 27, 1912, without a single shot. On 31 October 1912, the troops of the Bulgarian Rhodopes detachment under the command of General Stilian Kovachev entered the town.
A Bulgarian school is open in the city when Hristo Chernopeev is a commander, and Mihail Chekov is a district chief. Kavala remained in Bulgarian hands until the Second Balkan War in the summer of 1913, when Greek troops entered it, and according to the Bucharest Treaty of August 10, 1913, Kavala was handed over to Greece.
In the course of the First World War, the Bulgarian Army occupied the area of the town in August 1916 and it remained under Bulgarian control until the Thessalonian truce of September 29, 1918.
In 1941, the Second Bulgarian Army entered the Aegean and occupied the area. Kavala is a business and administrative town, becoming the leading Bulgarian town on the coast of the newly liberated Belomorsk region. It is the main base and the headquarters of the Bulgarian Navy. There is also a Bulgarian shipyard. After the September 9th coup in 1944, the Bulgarian army was withdrawing from the area.
The Kavalan aqueduct is a colossal structure, one of the many works of Suleiman the Magnificent. It was built around 1550 in place of a long wall, which played a protective role and was used as an aqueduct. At the top, there was a space on which the guards of the city strolled. In the 15th century, the aqueduct was destroyed and the Sultan built a new one, known as Kamares, to supply the city with water. The construction consists of 60 arches of different sizes, the largest of which is 52 meters high