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Eighteen kilometres along the coast from Balchik, KAVARNA was probably founded by the Mesembrians in order to challenge the importance of the harbour at nearby Krounoi. A predominantly Greek and Gagauz town in the nineteenth century, Kavarna was burned to the ground by marauding Circassians (Turkic Muslims from the Caucasus) in July 1877, and at least 1000 of its townsfolk murdered. Nowadays it's a quiet place, lying a couple of kilometres inland from the seafront, where there's a small beach resort, the Morska zvezda , and a port used for the export of Dobrudzhan grain. It's a good spot from which to explore the coastal cliffs just to the east which culminate in the dramatic Cape Kaliakra .
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