Zhelezna
Zhelezna is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Chiprovtsi Municipality, Montana Province. Zhelezna has about 217 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 217 residents
- Description: village in Chiprovtsi municipality, Montana oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Jelezna”, “Shelesna”, “Zhelyazna”, and “Zhelyezna”
- Postal code: 3461
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chiprovtsi and Ravna.
Chiprovtsi
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chiprovtsi is a small town in North Bulgaria, in the Balkan Mountains. It's famous for its traditional hand-woven carpets/rugs, and it's one of the few Roman Catholic enclaves in Bulgaria, an otherwise mostly Eastern Orthodox country.
Ravna
Village
Ravna is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of the Chiprovtsi Municipality in the Montana Province. In 2021 it had a population of 25 people. Ravna is situated 3½ km east of Zhelezna.
Kopilovtsi
Village
Photo: Crazy Wolf, GFDL.
Kopilovtsi is a village in Georgi Damyanovo Municipality, Montana Province, north-western Bulgaria. Kopilovtsi is situated 6 km south of Zhelezna.
Zhelezna
- Categories: village of Bulgaria, kmetstvo of Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Zhelezna, Chiprovtsi, Montana, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
43.38175° or 43° 22′ 54″ northLongitude
22.91385° or 22° 54′ 50″ eastPopulation
217Elevation
414 metres (1,358 feet)Open location code
8GM49WJ7+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 273880099OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
725378Wikidata ID
Q2457266
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Zhelezna” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Железна”
- Bulgarian: “С.ЖЕЛЕЗНА”
- Cebuano: “Zhelezna”
- Chechen: “Железна”
- Chinese: “Zhelezna”
- French: “Zhelezna”
- Kazakh: “Jelezna”
- Kazakh: “Железна”
- Kazakh: “جەلەزنا”
- Malay: “Zhelezna”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zhelezna”
- Polish: “Żelezna”
- Romanian: “Jelezna, Montana”
- Romanian: “Jelezna”
- Russian: “Железна”
- Swedish: “Zjelezna”
- Tatar: “Железна”
- Turkish: “Jelezna (Bulgaristan)”
- Turkish: “Jelezna, Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Jelezna”
- Ukrainian: “Железна”
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