Pliska
Pliska was the first capital of the First Bulgarian Empire during the Middle Ages and is now a small town in Shumen Province, on the Ludogorie plateau of the Danubian Plain, 20 km northeast of the provincial capital, Shumen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Svik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 1,260 residents
- Description: city in Kaspichan municipality, Shumen oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Ak Baba”, “Pliskov”, and “Pliskow”
- Postal code: 9920
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zlatna niva and Novi Pazar.
Zlatna niva
Village
Photo: Izvora, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zlatna niva is a village, which is situated 5 km northwest of Pliska.
Novi Pazar
Town
Photo: Ilikeliljon, Public domain.
Novi Pazar is a town in Shumen Province, northeastern Bulgaria, located in a hollow between the Shumen, Ludogorie and Provadiya plateaus, on the banks of the Kriva Reka. Novi Pazar is situated 6 km east of Pliska.
Kaspichan
Town
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kaspichan is a town in central northeastern Bulgaria, part of Shumen Province. It is located in the eastern Danubian Plain, some 70 km from the major Black Sea port Varna and around 120 km from the key Danube ports of Ruse and Silistra. Kaspichan is situated 6 km southeast of Pliska.
Pliska
- Categories: kmetstvo of Bulgaria, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Pliska, Kaspichan, Shumen, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
43.36207° or 43° 21′ 43″ northLongitude
27.12483° or 27° 7′ 29″ eastPopulation
1,260Elevation
160 metres (525 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG SKPOpen location code
8GM9946F+RWOpenStreetMap ID
node 501845742OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Pliska” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Pliska”
- Armenian: “Պլիսկա”
- Azerbaijani: “Pliska”
- Belarusian: “Пліска”
- Bulgarian: “Абоба”
- Bulgarian: “ГР.ПЛИСКА”
- Bulgarian: “Плиска”
- Bulgarian: “Плъсков”
- Catalan: “Pliska”
- Cebuano: “Pliska”
- Central Kurdish: “پلیسکا”
- Chinese: “普利斯卡”
- Church Slavic: “Пльсковъ · Блъгарїи”
- Church Slavic: “Пльсковъ”
- Czech: “Pliska”
- Danish: “Pliska”
- Dutch: “Pliska”
- Esperanto: “Pliska”
- French: “Aboba”
- French: “Pliska”
- Georgian: “პლისკა”
- German: “Pliska”
- Greek: “Πλίσκα”
- Hebrew: “פליסקה”
- Hungarian: “Pliszka”
- Irish: “Pliska”
- Italian: “Pliska”
- Japanese: “プリスカ”
- Kazakh: “Plïska”
- Kazakh: “Плиска (Шумен облысы)”
- Kazakh: “Плиска”
- Kazakh: “پلىيسكا”
- Korean: “플리스카”
- Latvian: “Pliska”
- Lithuanian: “Pliska”
- Macedonian: “Плиска”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pliska”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pliska”
- Norwegian: “Pliska”
- Ossetian: “Плискæ”
- Persian: “پلیسکا”
- Polish: “Pliska”
- Portuguese: “Plisca”
- Portuguese: “Pliska”
- Romanian: “Pliska”
- Russian: “Плиска”
- Scots: “Pliska”
- Serbian: “Pliska”
- Serbian: “Плиска”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aboba”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pliska”
- Slovak: “Pliska”
- Slovenian: “Pliska”
- South Azerbaijani: “پلیسکا”
- Spanish: “Plisca”
- Spanish: “Pliska”
- Swedish: “Pliska”
- Tatar: “Плиска”
- Turkish: “Ağababa”
- Turkish: “Pliska”
- Ukrainian: “Плиска”
- Vietnamese: “Pliska”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pliska”
- Welsh: “Pliska”
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