Chelopek
Chelopek is a village in Vratsa Municipality, Vratsa Province in northwestern Bulgaria. Located in the western Balkan Mountains, it is known as the home village of Ivan Vazov's heroine Baba Iliytsa from the tale One Bulgarian Woman.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 408 residents
- Description: village in Vratsa municipality, Vratsa oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Tschelopek”
- Postal code: 3043
Places of Interest
Highlights include Okolchitsa.
Okolchitsa
Peak
Okolchitsa is a Bulgarian mountain, the highest peak in the Vratsa mountains in the west part of the Balkan Mountains. On the peak on June 2, 1876, the last battle of Hristo Botev's army took place. Okolchitsa is situated 3 km northwest of Chelopek.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lyutibrod and Ruska Bela.
Lyutibrod
Village
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lyutibrod is a village in Mezdra Municipality in Vratsa Province, western Bulgaria. As of 2007 it has a population of 452. The village is situated in the northern end of the Iskar Gorge, on the right bank of the river of the same name. Lyutibrod is situated 3½ km southeast of Chelopek.
Ruska Bela
Village
Ruska Bela is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Mezdra Municipality, Vratsa Province. Ruska Bela is situated 5 km northeast of Chelopek.
Zverino
Village
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zverino is a village, which is situated 7 km southwest of Chelopek.
Chelopek
- Categories: village of Bulgaria, kmetstvo of Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Chelopek, Vratsa, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
43.13325° or 43° 7′ 60″ northLongitude
23.61003° or 23° 36′ 36″ eastPopulation
408Elevation
537 metres (1,762 feet)Open location code
8GM54JM6+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 273881138OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
732633Wikidata ID
Q2463415
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Chelopek” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “С.ЧЕЛОПЕК”
- Bulgarian: “Челопек”
- Catalan: “Txelopek”
- Cebuano: “Chelopek”
- Chechen: “Челопек (Болгари)”
- Chechen: “Челопек”
- Chinese: “Chelopek”
- French: “Chelopek”
- Georgian: “ჩელოპეკი”
- Kazakh: “Çelopek”
- Kazakh: “Челопек”
- Kazakh: “تشەلوپەك”
- Malay: “Chelopek”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chelopek”
- Persian: “چلوپک”
- Polish: “Czełopek (Bułgaria)”
- Polish: “Czełopek”
- Romanian: “Celopek, Vrața”
- Romanian: “Celopek”
- Russian: “Челопек”
- Swedish: “Chelopek”
- Swedish: “Tjelopek”
- Tatar: “Челопек (Болгария)”
- Tatar: “Челопек”
- Turkish: “Çelopek , Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Çelopek (Bulgaristan)”
- Turkish: “Çelopek, Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Çelopek, İvraca”
- Turkish: “Çelopek”
- Ukrainian: “Челопек”
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