Kalipetrovo
Kalipetrovo, previously named Stanchevo, is a village located in Silistra Municipality in north-eastern Bulgaria. Its area is 48.574 kilometers squared, making it the second largest village in the district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 3,200 residents
- Description: village in Silistra municipality, Silistra oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Calipetrova”, “Petrovo”, and “Stanchevo”
- Postal code: 7539
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mezhidi Tabia Fortress.
Mezhidi Tabia Fortress
Photo: Vislupus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Medjidi Tabia Fortress is a fortress from the 1840s and early 1850s. The fortress was built in the period 1841-1853 according to the plans of the German military engineer Helmut von Moltke who visited Silistra in 1837. Mezhidi Tabia Fortress is situated 3 km northeast of Kalipetrovo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Silistra and Aydemir.
Silistra
Photo: Georgi Genchev, Public domain.
Silistra is a city on the Danube in North-Eastern Bulgaria, in the corner where the short land border between Romania and Bulgaria meets the river. Nearby is the Srebarna Nature Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Aydemir
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aydemir is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Silistra Municipality, Silistra Province. Aydemir had 5711 inhabitants in 2016, down from 9095 short after the fall of communism in 1992. Aydemir is situated 6 km west of Kalipetrovo.
Sracimir
Village
Sratsimir has been a settlement since 1830. Its population comes from the villages in Ludogorie after the signing of the Treaty of Adrianople. The settlers were tricked by the Russian authorities into settling in Moldavia, but on the way they found that there were many free and rich lands with chernozem in the area. Sracimir is situated 10 km southeast of Kalipetrovo.
Kalipetrovo
- Categories: village of Bulgaria, kmetstvo of Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Kalipetrovo, Silistra, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.0794° or 44° 4′ 46″ northLongitude
27.23676° or 27° 14′ 12″ eastPopulation
3,200Elevation
92 metres (302 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG KAVOpen location code
8GP936HP+QPOpenStreetMap ID
node 273877309OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Kalipetrovo” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Калипетрово”
- Bulgarian: “С.КАЛИПЕТРОВО”
- Cebuano: “Kalipetrovo”
- Chechen: “Калипетрово”
- Chinese: “Kalipetrovo”
- Dutch: “Kalipetrovo”
- French: “Kalipetrovo”
- Kazakh: “Kalïpetrovo”
- Kazakh: “Калипетрово”
- Kazakh: “كالىيپەتروۆو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kalipetrovo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalipetrovo”
- Persian: “کالیپترووو”
- Polish: “Kalipetrowo”
- Romanian: “Kalipetrovo, Silistra”
- Romanian: “Kalipetrovo”
- Russian: “Калипетрово”
- Swedish: “Kalipetrovo”
- Tatar: “Калипетрово”
- Turkish: “Kalipetrovo (Bulgaristan)”
- Turkish: “Kalipetrovo, Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Kalipetrovo”
- Ukrainian: “Каліпетрово”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kalipetrovo”. Photo: Pamporoff, Public domain.