Maslen nos
Coordinates: 42°18′27″N 27°47′32″E / 42.30750°N 27.79222°E
Maslen nos (Bulgarian Маслен нос) is a cape on the Black Sea, in southeastern Bulgaria. Maslen nos is the southernmost point of Burgas Bay.
This Cape is the easternmost point of the Saddle Mountain beach which ends here on a peninsula (north-south extent: about 4 km, east-west distance about 3 km) and projecting into the Black Sea. Immediately on the Cape is a steep rocky coast into the sea. Viewed from the north Maslen nos recalls the outline of a lion's head - not to be confused with the rock band "lion head" on the river Ropotamo.
On the cape is the chapel Sveti Nikola. Two miles north from the Cape Maslen nos is Cape Karaultasch.
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The cape Maslen nos (example: "olive-bay") was the time of the Greeks notorious for many ships were wrecked here on the sharp rocks and went down. The cargo of these ships was in large part from amphorae with olive oil, then that clearly visible from the wrecked ships withdrew. Hence the name Maslen nos (maslo = fat, oil, nos = nose, cape).
During the 500 year rule of the Ottoman Empire over the region of present-day Bulgaria was called the Cape Zeytin Burnu, which means in Turkish "olive-bay" and even explicitly referred to olive oil and not generally to oil, such as the Bulgarian word "maslo. Zeytin (Turkish) = Зехтин (Bulgarian; transcription: Sechtin, borrowed from Turkish) = olive oil; burnu (Turkish) = nos (Bulgarian) = nose, ch
Not to be confused is the old Turkish name Zeytin Burnu with a same Zeytinburnu district in Istanbul.
The encountered in some atlases name "Cape Malsen nos" (English "cape Maslen nos") or "Nos Malsen nos" (abbreviated "N. Maslen nos") but is an incorrect Namespelling because of "nos" Bulgarian " cape "is. "Cape Malsen nos" would mean "Cape oily bay". The incorrect translation of "butter cape" (English "butter Cape") is to be found.
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