Western Fortress Wall is a part of a fortification system of Messambria Messemvria Nessebar, most of which is now under water. Now the preserved area of the wall is long, about 100 meters and its maximum height is up to 8 meters, and the wall is built in 'Opus Mixtum'. The main exposed wall is early Byzantine (5th-6th century). The wall follows the Thracian one (8th - 6th century BC) and antique fortress wall (4th - 3rd century BC), parts of this wall are preserved in its northwestern corner. Northern and southern edges of the wall entered the sea and used to be quay walls of two town ports. Two pentagonal towers flank the gate in front of the isthmus. Circle and semi-circle towers are symmetrically built near them. Later on the two faces of the wall are added rectangular towers. Two doors - falling down (cataract) and a door of two ales had closed down the main entrance of the town. Early Byzantine fortress walls functioned all Middle Age. The wall was seriously damaged during the different invasions. Five reconstructions had been documented in the period 7th - 14th century. After the capturing of Nessebar by Turks (1453), fortress walls lost their importance and gradually were destroyed. The main excavations and researches of preserved parts of fortress walls were made in the years 1958 until 1969 and later 1970-1981.

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