Pliska
Pliska was the first capital of the First Bulgarian Empire during the Middle Ages and is now a small town in Shumen Province, on the Ludogorie plateau of the Danubian Plain, 20 km northeast of the provincial capital, Shumen.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of around 160 metres (520 feet)
Places of Interest
Highlights include Great Basilica.
Great Basilica
Ruins
The Great Basilica of Pliska is an architectural… Great Basilica is situated 4 km northeast of Pliska.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zlatna niva and Novi Pazar.
Zlatna niva
Village
Zlatna niva is a village, which is situated 4 km northwest of Pliska.
Novi Pazar
Town
Novi Pazar is a town in Shumen Province, northeastern… Novi Pazar is situated 7 km east of Pliska.
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Latitude
43.3667° or 43° 22′ north
Longitude
27.1167° or 27° 7′ east
Open location code
8GM99488+MM
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Pliska” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Горад Пліска”
- Bulgarian: “Плиска”
- Central Kurdish: “پلیسکا”
- Chinese: “普利斯卡”
- Church Slavic: “Пльсковъ · Блъгарїи”
- Hebrew: “פליסקה”
- Hungarian: “Pliszka”
- Japanese: “プリスカ”
- Kazakh: “Плиска”
- Korean: “플리스카”
- Persian: “پلیسکا”
- Russian: “Плиска”
- Serbian: “Плиска”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aboba”
- Ukrainian: “Плиска”
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Notable Places Nearby
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