Valun
Valun is a village located on the Croatian island of Cres, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar. Administratively, it is part of the town of Cres. As of 2021, it had a population of 64.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 65 residents
- Description: settlement in the Town of Cres, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia
- Also known as: “Valan”, “Vallon”, and “Vallon di Cherso”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mali Podol and Lubenice.
Mali Podol
Village
Mali Podol is a village on the Croatian island of Cres, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar. Administratively, it is part of the town of Cres. As of 2021, it had a population of 3. It is located just to the northeast of Lake Vrana. Mali Podol is situated 3 km south of Valun.
Lubenice
Village
Photo: Punxsutawney-phil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lubenice, historically known as Ljubenice or Zubjenice, is an ancient fort city on the Croatian island of Cres that may have been inhabited as much as four thousand years ago on top of a 380 m-high ridge that overlooks the Adriatic Sea. Lubenice is situated 3 km southwest of Valun.
Zbišina
Hamlet
Zbišina is a village on the Croatian island of Cres, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar. Administratively, it is part of the town of Cres. As of 2021, it had a population of 2. It is located just to the west of Lake Vrana. Zbišina is situated 5 km southeast of Valun.
Valun
- Categories: settlement in Croatia and locality
- Location: Cres, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Kvarner, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
44.90485° or 44° 54′ 18″ northLongitude
14.36096° or 14° 21′ 40″ eastPopulation
65Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)Open location code
8FPPW936+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 293674148OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3188392Wikidata ID
Q942884
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Valun” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فالون”
- Bosnian: “Valun”
- Croatian: “Valun”
- Czech: “Valun”
- Dutch: “Valun”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فالون”
- French: “Valun”
- German: “Valun”
- Hungarian: “Valun”
- Polish: “Valun”
- Serbian: “Валун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Valun”
- Slovak: “Valun”
- Slovenian: “Valun”
- Spanish: “Valun”
- Ukrainian: “Валун (Црес)”
- Ukrainian: “Валун”
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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 “Valun”. Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.