Beshtau
Beshtau is an isolated five-domed igneous mountain in the northern vicinity of Pyatigorsk in the Northern Caucasus. It gave name to the historical region of Pyatigorye, the town of Pyatigorsk, and the ethnonym Pyatigoryan Circassians or Pyatigortsy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 20 residents
- Description: mountain in Russia
- Also known as: “Gora Beshtau”, “Stantsia Beshtau”, “Stantsiya Beshtau”, and “Станция Бештау”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inozemtsevo and Zheleznovodsk.
Inozemtsevo
Town
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Inozemtsevo is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of oblast significance of Zheleznovodsk in Stavropol Krai, Russia. Population: 28,398 ; 27,110 ; 21,358 . Inozemtsevo is situated 3½ km southeast of Beshtau.
Zheleznovodsk
Town
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Zheleznovodsk is a town in Stavropol Krai, Russia. Population: 24,433 ; 25,135 ; 28,460 . Zheleznovodsk is situated 6 km northwest of Beshtau.
Lermontov
Town
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Lermontov is a town in Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the mountainside of Beshtau. Population: 22,541 ; 22,964 ; 20,772 ; 16,500. Lermontov is situated 9 km west of Beshtau.
Beshtau
- Categories: mountain, natural monument of Russia, and protected area of Russia
- Location: Stavropol Krai, Southern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Uzbek—“Beshtau” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բեշթաու”
- Bashkir: “Биштау”
- Belarusian: “Бештау”
- Belarusian: “Гара Бештау”
- Cebuano: “Gora Beshtau”
- Dutch: “Besjtaoe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بيشتاو”
- Japanese: “ベシタウ”
- Japanese: “ベシュ・タウ”
- Kirghiz: “Беш-Тоо”
- Ladin: “Beshtau”
- Lithuanian: “Beštau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Besjtau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Бештау”
- Ossetian: “Бестау”
- Ossetian: “Бештау”
- Persian: “کوه بشتاو”
- Russian: “Бештау (гора)”
- Russian: “Бештау”
- Russian: “Гора Бештау”
- Russian: “посёлок Станция Бештау”
- Serbian: “Планина Бештау”
- Spanish: “Beshtau”
- Turkish: “Beşdağ”
- Ukrainian: “Бештау”
- Uzbek: “Beshtov (togʻ)”
- Uzbek: “Beshtov”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Beshtau”. Photo: Ganzikov, CC BY-SA 4.0.