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Encyclopedia > Emona (Burgas)

Emona is a village in South-East Bulgaria, situated in Obshtina Nessebar in the Burgas region. The beach Irakli is 5 km from Emona. Emona lies close to Cape Emine. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... Obshtina Nesebar ( Municipality of Nessebar ) takes the northern part of the Black Sea coast of the district of Burgas. ... Burgas region shown within Bulgaria Burgas is the fourth largest city in Bulgaria. ... Irakli is a beach on the Black Sea in Bulgaria between Obzor and Nessebar. ... Categories: Bulgaria geography stubs | Headlands ...


Emona is famous for being the birthplace of the Thracian king Rez who fought in the Trojan War. According to Homer’s Iliad he was killed by Odysseus and Diomedes. Thrace is a historical and geographic area in south-east Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, north-eastern Greece, and European Turkey. ... The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of Greece, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. ... Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War and is, along with the Odyssey, one of the two major Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer, a blind Ionian poet. ... Odysseus Laërtiadês (Greek: , son of Laertes), or simply Odysseus (meaning man of wrath according to Homer) or more likely (from Greek οδηγός: odigos) a guide; the one showing the way. ... In Greek mythology, Diomêdês (god-like cunning) was the son of Tydeus and Deipyle and a favored hero of Athena. ...


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Sightseeing along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast - Places of Interest for Tourists (761 words)
A small village called Emona can be found 2km away from the cape in inland direction.
The village's name, Emona, comes from the ancient name of the Stara Planina mountain range, Aemon (later called Hemus).
He participated in the Thracian War and was killed by Odysseus and Diomedus according to Homer's "Iliad".
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