Saint Peter Island
St. Peter Island is a Bulgarian island in the Black Sea, with an area of 0.025 square kilometres and a height of 9 metres above sea level. Also known as Bird Island, it is located in the Bay of Sozopol, close to the St.Photo: Izvora, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Agios Petros”, “Ostrov Kirikos”, “Ostrov Sveti Kirik”, “Ostrov Sveti Petr”, “Ostrov Sveti Petŭr”, “Ostrov Svetog Petra”, “Petŭr”, “St. Peter Island”, and “Sweti Petăr”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Ivan Island and Church of Saint George in Sozopol.
St. Ivan Island
Islet
Photo: Chrumps, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Ivan Island is the largest Bulgarian island in the Black Sea, with an area of 0.66 square kilometres. It lies off the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast near Sozopol, a town with rich history and a popular tourist place, and is separated by a strait several hundred metres long from the small neighbouring St.
Arena Sozopol
Stadium
Arena Sozopol is a football stadium in Sozopol, Bulgaria, with a seating capacity of 3,500. It has been the home of FC Sozopol since 2012, and hosted 8 games during the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, with an average attendance of 1,395 per game. Arena Sozopol is situated 3 km south of Saint Peter Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sozopol and Chernomorets.
Sozopol
Photo: MrPanyGoff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sozopol is an ancient seaside town located 35 km south of Burgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. One of the major seaside resorts in the country, it is known for the Apollonia art and film festival that is named after one of the town's ancient names.
Chernomorets
Town
Chernomorets is a town on the Black Sea coast of southeastern Bulgaria. Administratively part of Sozopol Municipality, Burgas Province, Chernomorets is a popular seaside resort. Chernomorets is situated 5 km west of Saint Peter Island.
Ravadinovo
Village
Ravadinovo is a village in Sozopol Municipality, in Burgas Province, in southeastern Bulgaria. As of 2013 it has 691 inhabitants. The village is situated at a distance of 2.5 km from the Black Sea, at the north-eastern foothills of Medni Rid Ridge, which is itself the north-eastern extreme of the Bosna Ridge in the Strandzha Mountains. Ravadinovo is situated 7 km southwest of Saint Peter Island.
Saint Peter Island
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Uzbek—“Saint Peter Island” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սուրբ Պյոտրի կղզի”
- Bulgarian: “Sveti Petar”
- Bulgarian: “Петър”
- Bulgarian: “Свети Петър”
- Cebuano: “Sveti Petur”
- Cebuano: “Sveti Petŭr”
- Chinese: “圣彼得岛”
- Chinese: “聖彼得島”
- Croatian: “Sveti Petar (otok u Bugarskoj)”
- Croatian: “Sveti Petar”
- Dutch: “St. Peter Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سانت. پيتير ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سانت. پيتير”
- French: “île Saint-Pierre”
- French: “Île Saint-Pierre”
- German: “Sweti Petar”
- Hebrew: “סווטי פטר (אי)”
- Hungarian: “Szent Péter-sziget”
- Italian: “Isola di San Pietro (Bulgaria)”
- Italian: “Isola di San Pietro”
- Latvian: “Svētā Pētera sala”
- Macedonian: “Свети Петар”
- Russian: “Святой Пётр”
- Slovak: “Svätý Peter”
- Slovak: “Sveti Petăr”
- Spanish: “Isla de San Pedro”
- Swedish: “Sveti Petăr”
- Turkish: “St. Peter Island”
- Ukrainian: “Святий Петро”
- Uzbek: “Sankt-Peter oroli (Bolgariya)”
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