Považská Bystrica
Považská Bystrica is a town in northwestern Slovakia. It is located on the Váh river, around 30 km from the city of Žilina. It belongs to Upper Váh Region.
- Type: Town with 41,900 residents
- Description: town in Slovakia
- Also known as: “Bystrica”, “Povazske Bystraica”, and “Vagbeszterce”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary and Kaplnka sv. Márie Magdalény.
Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary
Church
Kostol Navstivenia Panny Marie lies in the town centre in Považská Bystrica. It was built in the 14th century by the Royal Hungarian János Podmanitzky owner of castle Považský hrad.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Považské Podhradie and Dolný Moštenec.
Považské Podhradie
Suburb
Dolný Moštenec
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Považská Bystrica
- Categories: municipality of Slovakia and locality
- Location: Považská Bystrica, Považská Bystrica District, Trenčín Region, Slovakia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.11593° or 49° 6′ 57″ north
Longitude
18.44699° or 18° 26′ 49″ east
Population
41,900
Elevation
280 metres (919 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SK PBY
Open location code
8FXW4C8W+9Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Považská Bystrica” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوفاجسكا بيستريتسا”
- Asturian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Azerbaijani: “Povajska Bistritsa”
- Azerbaijani: “Považská Bystrica”
- Basque: “Považská Bystrica”
- Belarusian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Belarusian: “Паважска Бістрыца”
- Belarusian: “Паважска-Бістрыца”
- Belarusian: “Поважска-Бістрыца”
- Belarusian: “Поваска Быстрыца”
- Catalan: “Považská Bystrica”
- Cebuano: “Považská Bystrica (kapital sa distrito sa Eslobakya)”
- Cebuano: “Považská Bystrica”
- Chinese: “Považská Bystrica”
- Chinese: “瓦赫河畔比斯特里察”
- Croatian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Czech: “Považská Bystrica”
- Czech: “Povážská Bystrica”
- Danish: “Povazska Bystrica”
- Danish: “Povazská Bystrica”
- Danish: “Považská Bystrica”
- Dutch: “Povazska Bystrica”
- Dutch: “Považská Bystrica”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوفاجسكا بيستريتسا”
- Esperanto: “Povazska Bystrica”
- Esperanto: “Považská Bystrica”
- Estonian: “Považska Bystrica”
- Estonian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Finnish: “Povazska Bystrica”
- Finnish: “Považská Bystrica”
- French: “Povazska Bystrica”
- French: “Považská Bystrica”
- German: “Povazska Bystrica”
- German: “Považská Bystrica”
- German: “Waagbistritz”
- Hindi: “पोवाश्स्का बिस्त्रित्सा”
- Hungarian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Hungarian: “Vágbeszterce”
- Indonesian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Irish: “Považská Bystrica”
- Italian: “Povazska Bystrica”
- Italian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Japanese: “ポヴァシュスカ・ビストリツァ”
- Japanese: “ポヴァツシュカー・ビチュリカ”
- Korean: “포바슈스카비스트리차”
- Latvian: “Považska Bistrica”
- Limburgan: “Považská Bystrica”
- Lithuanian: “Považska Bistrica”
- Lombard: “Považská Bystrica”
- Macedonian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Macedonian: “Поважска Бистрица”
- Macedonian: “Повашка Бистрица”
- Malay: “Považská Bystrica”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Považská Bystrica”
- Moksha: “Považská Bystrica”
- Moksha: “Поважска Бистрица”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Považská Bystrica”
- Ossetian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Ossetian: “Поважскæ-Бистрицæ”
- Persian: “پواژسکا بیستریتسا”
- Polish: “Považská Bystrica”
- Polish: “Powaska Bystrzyca”
- Portuguese: “Považská Bystrica”
- Romanian: “Povazska Bystrica”
- Romanian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Russian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Russian: “Поважска Бистрица”
- Russian: “Поважска-Бистрица”
- Serbian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Serbian: “Поважска Бистрица”
- Serbian: “Повашка Бистрица”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Povaška Bistrica”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Považská Bystrica”
- Slovak: “Považská Bystrica”
- Slovak: “Vágbeszterce”
- Slovak: “Waagbistritz”
- Spanish: “Považská Bystrica”
- Swedish: “Povazska Bystrica”
- Swedish: “Považská Bystrica”
- Tatar: “Považská Bystrica”
- Tatar: “Поважска-Бистритса”
- Turkish: “Považská Bystrica”
- Ukrainian: “Поважська Бистриця”
- Ukrainian: “Повазька Бистриця”
- Urdu: “پوواژسکا ب Bystrica”
- Vietnamese: “Považská Bystrica”
- Waray (Philippines): “Považská Bystrica”
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