Eleshnitsa
Eleshnitsa is a village in Elin Pelin Municipality, in Sofia Province, Bulgaria. Eleshnitsa has about 426 residents.- Type: Village with 426 residents
- Description: village in Elin Pelin municipality, Sofia oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Chankova”, “Chankova-Eleshnitsa”, “Eleschniza”, “Eleshnitsa, Sofia Province”, and “Yordankino”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eleshnishki Monastery.
Eleshnishki Monastery
Church
The Eleshnitsa monastery of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is an active monastery, but currently there are no monks. Eleshnishki Monastery is situated 3½ km northeast of Eleshnitsa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zhelyava and Potop.
Zhelyava
Village
Zhelyava is a village in Kremikovtsi district of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. As of 2024 it has 439 inhabitants.
Stolnik
Village
Eleshnitsa
- Categories: village of Bulgaria, kmetstvo of Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Elin Pelin, Sofia Province, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.74421° or 42° 44′ 39″ north
Longitude
23.62863° or 23° 37′ 43″ east
Population
426
Elevation
692 metres (2,270 feet)
Open location code
8GJ5PJVH+MF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Uzbek—“Eleshnitsa” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Елешница (Област София)”
- Bulgarian: “Елешница”
- Bulgarian: “Йорданкино”
- Bulgarian: “С.ЕЛЕШНИЦА”
- Catalan: “Elèixnitsa”
- Chechen: “Елешница”
- Chinese: “Eleshnitsa”
- Japanese: “エレシュニトツァ”
- Kazakh: “Елешница”
- Macedonian: “Елешница”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Eleshnitsa”
- Persian: “الشنیتسا”
- Polish: “Elesznica (obwód sofijski)”
- Polish: “Elesznica”
- Romanian: “Eleșnița, Sofia”
- Romanian: “Eleșnița”
- Russian: “Елешница”
- Tatar: “Елешница (София өлкәсе)”
- Tatar: “Елешница”
- Turkish: “Arnavut-köy”
- Turkish: “Eleşnitsa (Bulgaristan)”
- Turkish: “Eleşnitsa, Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Eleşnitsa, Sofya”
- Turkish: “Eleşnitsa”
- Ukrainian: “Єлешниця (Софійська область)”
- Ukrainian: “Єлешниця”
- Uzbek: “Eleshnitsa, Sofiya viloyati”
- Uzbek: “Eleshnitsa”
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