The development of the town is a natural result from the preceding social, economical, political and cultural development of the region. The sea as a living and a romance has urged the citizens of the ancient Greek colonies Apolonia and Anchialo to look for a living and protection in the comfortable Black Sea bay.The earlier signs of life in the crossroad location can be traced back to bronze and the beginning of the iron age. A great quantity of finds attests the availability of life activities during the Thracian age which ranges over the second half of the VI century B.C. The name of Bourgas, the administrative centre of the Municipality Bourgas appears for the first time in 1306 in the poem of Byzantine poet Manuil Fill as Pirgos, the Greek equivalent of the Latin word Burgos, which means the Tower.

Bourgas appears on the map for the first time in the year 1733

According to the English map issued in 1854, Bourgas occupies an area of 1 sq.km. Бecause of its crossroad position and the comfortable seaport the town starts to grow fast.