Pangalia

Pangalia stands on the Black Sea coast at the site of ancient Callatis, a Greek colony founded by settlers from Heraclea Pontica. Its people struck silver coins and cultivated the surrounding lands before the Romans brought the city into Moesia. After a long interruption in its history, settlement resumed, and by the thirteenth century the town was known as Pangalia. Under Ottoman rule it acquired the name Mangalia; a mosque endowed by the princess İsmihan Sultan was built in the sixteenth century.