Kyustendil
Kyustendil Municipality is a municipality in Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria. The administrative centre is Kyustendil.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: municipality of Bulgaria with 53,300 residents
- Description: municipality in Kyustendil oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Gradska Obshtina Kyustendil”, “Kyustendil municipality”, “Kyustendil Municipality”, and “Kyustendil Obshtina”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St George’s Church and Hisarlaka fortress.
St George’s Church
Church
Photo: Nikomla, Public domain.
The Church of St George is a medieval Eastern Orthodox church in the city of Kyustendil, which lies in southwestern Bulgaria and is the administrative capital of Kyustendil Province.
Hisarlaka fortress
Castle
Photo: Gligan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hisarlaka Fortress is an ancient and medieval fortress occupying a hill at 2 kilometres to the south-east of Kyustendil, in what is now Bulgaria. Originally constructed by the Romans around 400 AD, it was among the most important castles of the Bulgarian Empire in the Middle Ages before it was partially destroyed by the Ottomans in the 15th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kyustendil and Slokoshhica.
Kyustendil
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kyustendil is a city in Central Western Bulgaria, under the slopes of the Osogovo Mountain which straddles the border with North Macedonia. With a population of about 37,000, the city is the hiking and ski tourism gateway to the mountain and, less prominently, a spa resort.
Slokoshhica
Village
Photo: Nikomla, Public domain.
Slokoshtitsa is a village in Kyustendil Municipality, Kyustendil Province, south-western Bulgaria.
Lozno
Village
Lozno is a village in Kyustendil Municipality, Kyustendil Province, south-western Bulgaria.
Kyustendil
- Location: Kyustendil, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kyustendil” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلدية كيوستنديل”
- Belarusian: “Кюсцендыл”
- Bulgarian: “Кюстендил (община)”
- Bulgarian: “Кюстендил”
- Bulgarian: “Община Кюстендил”
- Bulgarian: “Общинска администрация - Кюстендил”
- Catalan: “Kiustendil”
- Cebuano: “Obshtina Kyustendil”
- Chinese: “Kyustendil Koān”
- Chinese: “丘斯滕迪尔市镇”
- Chinese: “丘斯滕迪爾市鎮”
- Czech: “Obština Kjustendil”
- Dutch: “Kjoestendil”
- French: “Kyoustendil”
- Galician: “Kiustendil”
- Georgian: “კიუსტენდილის თემი”
- German: “Gemeinde Kjustendil”
- German: “Kjustendil”
- Greek: “Δήμος του Κιουστεντίλ”
- Italian: “Kyustendil”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kyustendil Koān”
- Northern Frisian: “Kjustendil (Gemeend)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kjustendil”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kjustendil”
- Persian: “شهرستان کیوستندیل”
- Polish: “Gmina Kiustendił”
- Polish: “Gmina Kjustendił”
- Polish: “Kiustendił”
- Romanian: “Comuna Kiustendil, Kiustendil”
- Romanian: “Obştina Kiustendil”
- Romanian: “Obștina Kiustendil”
- Russian: “Кюстендил”
- Russian: “община Кюстендил”
- Spanish: “Kiustendil”
- Spanish: “Kyustendil”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Kiustendil”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Kyustendil”
- Swedish: “Kjustendil”
- Turkish: “Köstendil belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Küstendil belediyesi”
- Ukrainian: “Кюстендил”
- Ukrainian: “община Кюстендил”
- Vietnamese: “Kyustendil (đô thị)”
- Vietnamese: “Kyustendil”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Kyustendil”
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