Karvuna

Karvuna was the name of a district on the western Black Sea coast of Dobruja and of a port marked on medieval sea charts. Its coastal lands formed part of the principality associated with the rulers Balik and Dobrotitsa. Archaeological evidence places the centre of that principality at the fortress of Kaliakra, on a rocky cape projecting into the sea. The name Karvuna appears on portolan charts from the fourteenth century, when mariners used them to find harbours along this coast.