Alepu
Alepu is a swamp on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, situated within Burgas Province, 6.5 kilometers south of the resort town of Sozopol. It is 3.3 kilometres long and up to 320 metres wide, with an area of 167 hectares.Photo: Miko Stavrev, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Marsh
- Description: swamp in Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Lisiche Blato” and “Ozero Alepu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Thomas Island.
St. Thomas Island
Islet
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Thomas Island or Zmiyski ostrov, is a Bulgarian island in the Black Sea. It is situated in Burgas Province, Primorsko Municipality, 7 km north of Primorsko and 15 km km south of Sozopol.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dyuni Resort and Ravadinovo.
Dyuni Resort
Hamlet
Photo: Katunchi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dyuni is a resort town on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, in Sozopol Municipality, Burgas Province, southern Bulgaria. It was purpose-built in 1986–1987 and features a large resort accompanied by several subsidiary hotels, restaurants, and entertainment venues.
Ravadinovo
Village
Ravadinovo is a village in Sozopol Municipality, in Burgas Province, in southeastern Bulgaria. As of 2013 it has 691 inhabitants. The village is situated at a distance of 2.5 km from the Black Sea, at the north-eastern foothills of Medni Rid Ridge, which is itself the north-eastern extreme of the Bosna Ridge in the Strandzha Mountains. Ravadinovo is situated 5 km northwest of Alepu.
Beglik Tash
Locality
Photo: Filipov Ivo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Beglik Tash is a prehistoric rock sanctuary situated on the southern Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, a few kilometers north of the city of Primorsko. It was re-used by the Thracian tribes in the Iron Age. Beglik Tash is situated 7 km southeast of Alepu.
Alepu
- Categories: marsh, lagoon, and body of water
- Location: Burgas, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Alepu” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Алепу”
- Bulgarian: “Лисиче блато”
- Cebuano: “Alepu”
- Dutch: “Alepu”
- German: “Naturschutzgebiet Alepu”
- Greek: “Αλεπού”
- Malayalam: “ആലെപൂ”
- Romanian: “Alepu”
- Russian: “Алепу”
- Spanish: “Alepu”
- Swedish: “Alepu”
- Ukrainian: “Алепу”
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