Bolghar

Bolghar or Bolgar was intermittently the capital of Volga Bulgaria from the 10th to the 13th centuries, along with and Nur-Suvar. It was situated on the bank of the Volga River, about 30 km downstream from its confluence with the Kama River and some 130 km from modern in what is now .
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Photo: Indeikin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Archaeological site
  • …lies at an elevation of 77 metres (253 feet)
  • Description: Gord of Volga Bulgaria
  • Also known as
    “Bolghar (archaeological complex)”
    “Bolghar Gord”
    “Great Bolghar Gord”
Photo: Indeikin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cathedral Mosque and The Black chamber.

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is situated 210 metres northeast of Bolghar.

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is situated 290 metres south of Bolghar.

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is situated 260 metres northeast of Bolghar.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bolgar and Small town of Ancient Bolgar.

Town
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is a town and the administrative center…

Locality
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is a locality.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 8 km south of Bolghar.

Bolghar

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Latitude
54.98463° or 54° 59′ 5″ north
Longitude
49.05298° or 49° 3′ 11″ east
Open location code
9H6FX3M3+V5
Geo­Names ID
12129112
Wiki­data ID
Q2486263

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Bolghar” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bolghar”
  • Afrikaans: “Bulgar”
  • Arabic: “بلغار”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bulqar”
  • Bulgarian: “Велики Болгар”
  • Catalan: “Bolghar”
  • Chechen: “Булгар”
  • Chinese: “保加尔古城”
  • Chinese: “保加尔市”
  • Chuvash: “Аслă Пăлхар”
  • Chuvash: “Пăлхар”
  • Croatian: “Bolğar”
  • Czech: “Bulgar”
  • Dutch: “Boelgar (historisch)”
  • Dutch: “Boelgar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلجار”
  • Estonian: “Bolgar (Volga-Bulgaaria)”
  • Estonian: “Bolgar”
  • Finnish: “Bulgar”
  • French: “Gorodichtché de Bolgar”
  • Galician: “Bolghar”
  • Georgian: “ბულგარი”
  • German: “Bolgar”
  • German: “Historisches Zentrum und archäologische Stätten von Bolgar”
  • Hebrew: “בולגר”
  • Hungarian: “Bulgar”
  • Indonesian: “Bolghar”
  • Italian: “Atil”
  • Italian: “Bolğar”
  • Italian: “Bolgary”
  • Japanese: “ブルガール (都市)”
  • Japanese: “ブルガール”
  • Japanese: “ボルガール”
  • Kazakh: “Bulğar”
  • Kazakh: “Болгар”
  • Kazakh: “Болғар”
  • Kazakh: “Бұлғар”
  • Kazakh: “بۇلعار”
  • Latin: “Bulgaria”
  • Lithuanian: “Bulgaras”
  • Macedonian: “Болгар”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bolgar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bolghar”
  • Norwegian: “Bolgar”
  • Persian: “شهر بلغار”
  • Polish: “Bułgar Wielki”
  • Portuguese: “Bolgar (cidade medieval)”
  • Portuguese: “Bolgar”
  • Romanian: “Bolgar”
  • Romanian: “Bolghar”
  • Russian: “Болгарское городище”
  • Russian: “Булгар”
  • Russian: “Великий Булгар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bolğar”
  • Slovak: “Bolgar”
  • Slovak: “Bulgar”
  • Slovak: “Historický a archeologický komplex Bolgaru”
  • Slovenian: “Bolgar”
  • Spanish: “Bolghar”
  • Swedish: “Bulghar”
  • Tamil: “போல்கர்”
  • Tatar: “Болгар шәһәрлеге”
  • Tatar: “Болгар”
  • Turkish: “Bulgar, Tataristan”
  • Turkish: “Bulgar”
  • Ukrainian: “Булгар”
  • Ukrainian: “Булгарське городище”
  • Urdu: “بولغار”
  • Uzbek: “Bulgʻor”
  • Vietnamese: “Bolghar”

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