Stob
Stob is a village in southwest Bulgaria, administratively part of Kocherinovo Municipality, Kyustendil Province. Located at the foot of the Rila mountain range and not far from the Rila Monastery, Stob was first mentioned in the 7th century and has been in continuous or near-continuous existence since then.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 584 residents
- Description: village in Kocherinovo municipality, Kyustendil oblast, Bulgaria
- Postal code: 2638
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stob Pyramids.
Stob Pyramids
Photo: Gitanes232, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Stob Earth Pyramids are rock formations, known as hoodoos, situated at the foothills of the Rila mountain range in south-western Bulgaria. They span an area of 0.7 km2 near the village of Stob, Kyustendil Province.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porominovo and Kocherinovo.
Porominovo
Village
Photo: Apostoloff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Porominovo is a village in Kocherinovo Municipality, Kyustendil Province, south-western Bulgaria. As of 2013 it has 453 inhabitants. It is situated at the western foothills of the Rila Mountains on the banks of the Rilska River in the vicinity of the Stob Earth Pyramids. Porominovo is situated 3 km southwest of Stob.
Kocherinovo
Town
Photo: Biso, Public domain.
Kocherinovo is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, part of Kyustendil Province. It is the administrative centre of Kocherinovo Municipality, which lies in the southern part of Kyustendil Province. Kocherinovo is situated 4 km west of Stob.
Rila
Town
Photo: Explorer1940, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rila is a town in Shopluk of Bulgaria, in the foothills of the southwestern Rila Mountains, on the banks of the Rilska River. It is the closest settlement to Rila Monastery, the center of both the religious and cultural spirit of the Bulgarian nation. Rila is situated 4 km northeast of Stob.
Stob
- Categories: village of Bulgaria, kmetstvo of Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Stob, Kocherinovo, Kyustendil, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.09506° or 42° 5′ 42″ northLongitude
23.10665° or 23° 6′ 24″ eastPopulation
584Elevation
615 metres (2,018 feet)Open location code
8GJ534W4+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 273815267OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
726791Wikidata ID
Q1019792
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Stob” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “С.СТОБ”
- Bulgarian: “Стоб”
- Cebuano: “Stob”
- Chechen: “Стоб”
- Chinese: “Stob”
- Dutch: “Stob”
- French: “Stob”
- German: “Stob”
- Hungarian: “Sztob”
- Kazakh: “Stob”
- Kazakh: “Стоб”
- Kazakh: “ستوب”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Stob”
- Persian: “ستوب (روستا)”
- Persian: “ستوب”
- Romanian: “Stob, Kiustendil”
- Romanian: “Stob”
- Russian: “Стоб”
- Slovak: “Stob”
- Swedish: “Stob”
- Tatar: “Стоб”
- Turkish: “Stob (Bulgaristan)”
- Turkish: “Stob, Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Stob”
- Ukrainian: “Стоб”
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