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I don't really think it is appropriate to denegrate known and historically recorded atrocities such as the burning of Anchialos with the incorrect assertions that only "some homes" were burned, only "some people" were forced to leave.
It is also inappropriate to end with a joke, which itself betrays a lack of knowledge of Greek phonetics, e.g.: "Because the Greek can't say ts..." Greeks of course can and do use words with TS.
For the record, this area and these people were the victims of a pogram. Many various people were victims durign this time, but this was not an irrendentist population, there is no evidence whatsoever that they, or Greece, made any claims based on the Greeks of coastal Roumelia. They were simply emptied because they were a wealthy trading class.
It was a classic goose that laid the golden egg. They were wealthy, but the port towns fell into total disuse after.
Please consult any 19h century ethnographic or linguistic map from a third party. Sozopolis was a mixed area so was Varna, but Anchiias was not. Its population were Greeks.
Further south, all maps show the coast as ethnic Greek. Please do some reading about how this area was treated by the Bulgarian nationalists. It was completely and violently emptied. Moreover it was emptied for no reason. Bulgaria itself did not remame the towns or repopulate them, with the exception of Agathoplis, which was also burned, until the 1930's. At that point they were not used as the economic engines they once were, but instead as vacation places for the elites.
This is no denegration against Bulgarians. No Bulgaria today is responsible for this. Moreover ALL minorities in the Balkans suffered. But please don't laugh off a serious atrocity.
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