Peshtera
Peshtera is a town in the Rhodope Mountains, southern Bulgaria. It is located in Pazardzhik Province near the towns of Batak and Bratsigovo. The town is the third largest in the province after Pazardzhik and Velingrad and is the forty-fifth largest in Bulgaria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 20,800 residents
- Description: city in Peshtera municipality, Pazardzhik oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Momarsko”, “Peščera”, and “Peshchera”
- Postal code: 4550
- Neighbors: Pazardzhik and Smolyan
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Radilovo and Bratsigovo.
Radilovo
Village
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Radilovo is a village in the municipality of Peshtera, Pazardzhik Province in western Bulgaria. It has a population of 1537. Radilovo is situated in the foothills of the Rhodope mountains, at 14 km to the south of Pazardzhik, on the main road from Pazardzhik to Batak via Peshtera. Radilovo is situated 5 km north of Peshtera.
Bratsigovo
Town
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bratsigovo is a town in Southern Bulgaria. It is located in the foothills of the Rhodope Mountains, on the banks of the Umishka River in Pazardzhik oblast, and is close to the towns of Peshtera and Krichim. Bratsigovo Hills on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica are named after the town. Bratsigovo is situated 5 km east of Peshtera.
Rozovo
Village
Rozovo is a village located in Bratsigovo Municipality, Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria. It is 4 km from Bratsigovo and 8 km from the village Ravnogor. Rozovo is situated 6 km southeast of Peshtera.
Peshtera
- Categories: municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Peshtera, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.03365° or 42° 2′ 1″ northLongitude
24.30521° or 24° 18′ 19″ eastPopulation
20,800Elevation
440 metres (1,444 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG PECOpen location code
8GJ628M4+F3OpenStreetMap ID
node 270706123OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Peshtera” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بشترة”
- Arabic: “بَشْتَرَة”
- Bulgarian: “ГР.ПЕЩЕРА”
- Bulgarian: “Пещера”
- Bulgarian: “С.ПЕЩЕРА”
- Catalan: “Pèixtera”
- Cebuano: “Peshtera”
- Central Kurdish: “پێشتێرا”
- Chinese: “佩什泰拉”
- Church Slavic: “Пєщєра · градъ”
- Czech: “Peštera”
- Dutch: “Peshtera”
- Dutch: “Pesjtera”
- French: “Pechtera”
- Georgian: “პეშტერა”
- German: “Peschtera”
- German: “Peshtera”
- Greek: “Πέστερα”
- Hebrew: “פשטרה”
- Irish: “Peshtera”
- Italian: “Peštera”
- Japanese: “ペシテラ”
- Japanese: “ペシュテラ”
- Kazakh: “Пештера”
- Korean: “페슈테라”
- Lithuanian: “Peštera”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Peshtera”
- Macedonian: “Пештера”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pesjtera”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pesjtera”
- Ossetian: “Пештерæ (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Пештерæ”
- Persian: “پشترا”
- Polish: “Pesztera”
- Portuguese: “Peštera”
- Romanian: “Peshtera”
- Romanian: “Peștera, Bulgaria”
- Romanian: “Peştera”
- Romanian: “Peștera”
- Russian: “Пештера”
- Serbian: “Peštera”
- Serbian: “Пештера”
- Serbian: “Пещера”
- Slovak: “Peštera (mesto)”
- Slovak: “Peštera”
- Slovenian: “Peštera”
- South Azerbaijani: “پشترا”
- Spanish: “Peshtera”
- Swedish: “Pesjtera”
- Tatar: “Пештера”
- Turkish: “Peshtera”
- Turkish: “Peştera”
- Turkish: “Peştere”
- Ukrainian: “Пештера”
- Vietnamese: “Peshtera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Peshtera”
- “Peshtera”
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