Pleven
Gulyantsi
Gigen

Gigen

Gigen is a village in northern , part of , . It is located near the , opposite the town of .
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  • Type: Village with 1,390 residents
  • Description: village in Gulyantsi municipality, Pleven oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Ghighèn”
  • Postal code: 5970

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oescus.

Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, Palatiolon or Palatiolum was an important ancient city on the river in Roman Moesia. It later became known as Ulpia . It lay northwest of the modern city of , near the village of Gigen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corabia.

Town
Photo: Andrei Stroe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small port located in , , Romania, which used to be part of the now-dissolved Romanați County before World War II. Across the Danube from lies the Bulgarian village of Gigen. is situated 9 km north of Gigen.

Gigen

Latitude
43.69734° or 43° 41′ 50″ north
Longitude
24.48222° or 24° 28′ 56″ east
Population
1,390
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
Open location code
8GM6MFWJ+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 273874441
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
731437
Wiki­data ID
Q2654529
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Gigen” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Гиген”
  • Bulgarian: “С.ГИГЕН”
  • Cebuano: “Gigen”
  • Chechen: “Гиген”
  • Chinese: “Gigen”
  • Chinese: “吉根”
  • Dutch: “Gigen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيجين”
  • French: “Gigen”
  • Georgian: “გიგენი”
  • German: “Gigen”
  • Hebrew: “גיגן”
  • Japanese: “ギゲン”
  • Kazakh: “Gïgen”
  • Kazakh: “Гиген”
  • Kazakh: “گىيگەن”
  • Malay: “Gigen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gigen”
  • Persian: “گئگن”
  • Polish: “Gigen”
  • Romanian: “Ghighen, Plevna”
  • Romanian: “Ghighen”
  • Russian: “Гиген”
  • Spanish: “Gigen”
  • Spanish: “Guiguén”
  • Swedish: “Gigen”
  • Tatar: “Гиген”
  • Turkish: “Gigen (Bulgaristan)”
  • Turkish: “Gigen, Bulgaristan”
  • Turkish: “Gigen”
  • Ukrainian: “Гиген”

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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 “Gigen”. Photo: Pamporoff, Public domain.