Veliki Preslav
Veliki Preslav Municipality is a municipality in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan north of the eastern part of the Stara planina mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Bulgaria with 12,200 residents
- Description: municipality in Shumen oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Gradska Obshtina Preslav”, “Obshtina Preslav”, “Preslavska Obshtina”, “Veliki Preslav municipality”, and “Veliki Preslav Municipality”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palace of Omurtag.
Palace of Omurtag
Archaeological site
Photo: Izvora, Public domain.
The Palace of Omurtag or Aul of Omurtag is an archaeological site in northeastern Bulgaria dating to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages located near the village of Han Krum in Shumen Province.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Veliki Preslav and Han Krum.
Veliki Preslav
Photo: Evelina Jordanova, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Veliki Preslav is a small town in northeastern Bulgaria, not far from Shumen. It was the site of the second capital of medieval Bulgaria, and now the ruins are a national archeological reserve.
Han Krum
Village
Photo: Izvora, Public domain.
Han Krum is a village in the municipality of Preslav, Shumen Province, north-eastern Bulgaria. As of 2007 it has 408 inhabitants. Up to 1899 the village was called Chatalar and was then renamed to Tsar Krum and in 1977 to Khan Krum, after Krum who ruled Bulgaria between 803 and 814.
Osmar
Village
Photo: Izvora, Public domain.
Osmar is a village, which is situated 4½ km north of Veliki Preslav.
Veliki Preslav
- Location: Shumen, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Welsh—“Veliki Preslav” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “абшчына Вялікі-Праслаў”
- Belarusian: “Вялікі-Праслаў (абшчына)”
- Belarusian: “Вялікі-Праслаў”
- Bulgarian: “Велики Преслав (община)”
- Bulgarian: “Велики Преслав”
- Bulgarian: “Община Велики Преслав”
- Bulgarian: “Общинска администрация - Велики Преслав”
- Catalan: “Veliki Preslav”
- Cebuano: “Obshtina Veliki Preslav”
- Chinese: “Veliki Preslav Koān”
- Chinese: “大普雷斯拉夫市鎮”
- Chinese: “大普雷斯拉夫市镇”
- Czech: “Obština Veliki Preslav”
- French: “Veliki Preslav”
- Georgian: “ველიკი-პრესლავის თემი”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Veliki Preslav Koān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Veliki Preslav”
- Persian: “شهرستان ولیکی پرسلو”
- Persian: “ولیکی پرسلو مونیکیپلیتی”
- Polish: “Gmina Weliki Presław”
- Polish: “Weliki Presław”
- Portuguese: “Veliki Preslav”
- Romanian: “Comuna Veliki Preslav, Șumen”
- Romanian: “Comuna Veliki Preslav”
- Russian: “Велики-Преслав”
- Russian: “Община Велики-Преслав”
- Slovenian: “Občina Veliki Preslav”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Veliki Preslav”
- Swedish: “Obsjtina Veliki Preslav”
- Swedish: “Veliki Preslav”
- Turkish: “Eski İstanbulluk”
- Turkish: “Veliki Preslav belediyesi”
- Vietnamese: “Veliki Preslav”
- Welsh: “Ardal Ddinesig Dinesig Veliki Preslav”
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Notable Places Nearby
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