Kran
Kran is a town in central Bulgaria. It is located just south of the Balkan Mountains and is administratively part of Kazanlak Municipality, Stara Zagora Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 3,100 residents
- Description: city in Kazanlak municipality, Stara Zagora oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Gaskioy”, “Khassŭt”, “Khasŭt”, “Kran, Stara Zagora Province”, “Kren”, “Krön”, and “Krŭn”
- Postal code: 6140
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sarafova mound and Svetitsa mound.
Sarafova mound
Archaeological site
Photo: Filipov Ivo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sarafova mound is an archaeological site.
Ostrusha mound
Museum
Photo: HM-ISKRA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ostrusha mound is a Thracian burial tumulus near the Bulgarian town of Shipka. It was constructed in the middle of the 4th century BCE. The stone structures under the more than 18 meters high mound form one of the biggest representative tomb-cult complexes with 6 rooms on an area of 100 square meters. Ostrusha mound is situated 3½ km northwest of Kran.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Enina and Kazanlak.
Kazanlak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kazanlak is a city in Central Bulgaria, in a valley south of the Balkan Mountains, on the road to the historic Shipka Pass. It's famous as the center of Bulgaria's rose oil industry, and the surrounding area abounds with ancient tombs, one of which is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Koprinka
Village
Photo: M2nmx, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Koprinka is a village, which is situated 6 km southwest of Kran.
Kran
- Categories: kmetstvo of Bulgaria, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Krun, Kazanlak, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.66777° or 42° 40′ 4″ northLongitude
25.38069° or 25° 22′ 51″ eastPopulation
3,100Elevation
450 metres (1,476 feet)Open location code
8GJ7M99J+47OpenStreetMap ID
node 273881009OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
729888Wikidata ID
Q769058
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Vietnamese—“Kran” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Kran”
- Bulgarian: “Крън”
- Bulgarian: “С.КРЪН”
- Cebuano: “Krun”
- Chechen: “Крын”
- Dutch: “Kran”
- French: “Kran”
- German: “Kran”
- Irish: “Kran”
- Japanese: “クラン (スタラ・ザゴラ州)”
- Kazakh: “Krın”
- Kazakh: “Крын”
- Kazakh: “كرىن”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krăn”
- Polish: “Kryn”
- Romanian: “Krăn, Stara Zagora”
- Romanian: “Krăn”
- Russian: “Крын”
- Slovenian: “Kran”
- Slovenian: “Krăn”
- South Azerbaijani: “کران, استارا زاگورا اوستان”
- Spanish: “Kran”
- Swedish: “Kern”
- Swedish: “Krăn”
- Tatar: “Крын”
- Thai: “เกริน”
- Turkish: “Hasköy , Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Hasköy (Bulgaristan)”
- Turkish: “Hasköy”
- Turkish: “Kran”
- Ukrainian: “Крин”
- Ukrainian: “Крін”
- Vietnamese: “Kran”
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