Alba Iulia
Alba Iulia is a city in Western Transylvania, Romania. It is the capital of Alba county and has one of the most beautiful Habsburg citadels of Europe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 63,500 residents
- Description: city in Romania
- Also known as: “Bălgărad”, “Karlsburg”, and “Weißenburg”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Michael’s Cathedral and Reunification Cathedral.
St. Michael’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Rabanus Flavus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Michael's Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia, Romania, and is the oldest and longest cathedral in the country.
Reunification Cathedral
Church
Photo: Danielusz, CC BY-SA 3.0 ro.
The Coronation Cathedral, dedicated to the Holy Trinity and the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel, is a Romanian Orthodox cathedral located at 16 Mihai Viteazul Street, Alba Iulia, Romania.
National Museum of the Union
Museum
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
The National Museum of the Union is a history and archaeology museum in Alba-Iulia, Romania.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bărăbanț and Oarda.
Alba Iulia
- Categories: municipality of Romania, capital of county in Romania, and locality
- Location: Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
46.0687° or 46° 4′ 8″ northLongitude
23.5704° or 23° 34′ 14″ eastPopulation
63,500Elevation
219 metres (719 feet)IATA airport code
QAYUnited Nations Location Code
RO ALIOpen location code
8GR53H9C+F5OpenStreetMap ID
node 422868186OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
686578Wikidata ID
Q174665
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Alba Iulia” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Alba Iulia”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Apulon”
- Arabic: “ألبا يوليا”
- Arabic: “البا يوليا”
- Aragonese: “Alba Iulia”
- Aragonese: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Aragonese: “Karlsburg”
- Armenian: “Ալբա Յուլիա”
- Azerbaijani: “Alba Yuliya”
- Basque: “Alba Iulia”
- Belarusian: “Алба-Юлія”
- Bosnian: “Alba Iulia”
- Breton: “Alba Iulia”
- Bulgarian: “Vojvodov Bjalgrad”
- Bulgarian: “Алба Юлия”
- Bulgarian: “Алба-Юлия”
- Bulgarian: “Белград”
- Catalan: “Alba Iulia”
- Cebuano: “Alba Iulia (kapital sa lalawigan sa Rumanya)”
- Cebuano: “Municipiul Alba Iulia”
- Chinese: “阿尔巴尤利亚”
- Chinese: “阿爾巴尤利亞”
- Croatian: “Alba Iulia”
- Croatian: “Alba-Iulia”
- Croatian: “Erdeljski Biograd” (historical)
- Czech: “Alba Iulia”
- Czech: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Czech: “Karlovský Bělehrad” (historical)
- Dacian: “Apulon”
- Danish: “Alba Iulia”
- Dutch: “Alba Iulia”
- Dutch: “Gyulafehervar”
- Dutch: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Egyptian Arabic: “البا يوليا”
- Esperanto: “Alba Iulia”
- Esperanto: “Djulafehervaro”
- Esperanto: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Estonian: “Alba Iulia”
- Estonian: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Estonian: “Karlsburg”
- Finnish: “Alba Iulia”
- Finnish: “Apulum”
- French: “Alba Iulia”
- French: “Alba Julia”
- French: “Alba-Iulia”
- French: “Alba-Julia”
- French: “Apulum”
- French: “Gyulafehervar”
- French: “Gyulafehérvar”
- French: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Galician: “Alba Iulia”
- Georgian: “ალბა-იულია”
- German: “Alba Iulia”
- German: “Alba Julia”
- German: “Alba-Iulia”
- German: “Apulum”
- German: “Balgrad”
- German: “Bălgrad”
- German: “Gyulafehervar”
- German: “Gyulafehérvár”
- German: “Károlyvàros”
- German: “Karlsburg” (historical)
- German: “Weißenburg” (historical)
- Greek: “Άλμπα Ιούλια”
- Hebrew: “אלבה יוליה”
- Hebrew: “קרלסבורג”
- Hungarian: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Indonesian: “Alba Iulia”
- Indonesian: “Alba-Iulia”
- Indonesian: “Gyulafehervar”
- Indonesian: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Interlingue: “Alba Iulia”
- Irish: “Alba Iulia”
- Italian: “Alba Iulia”
- Italian: “Alba Julia”
- Italian: “Gyulafehervar”
- Italian: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Japanese: “アルバ・ユーリア”
- Japanese: “アルバ・ユリア”
- Japanese: “アルバユーリア”
- Japanese: “アルバユリア”
- Korean: “알바 이울리아”
- Korean: “알바이울리아”
- Latin: “Alba Iulia”
- Latin: “Apulum”
- Latvian: “Alba Iulia”
- Latvian: “Alba Julija”
- Latvian: “Belgrada” (historical)
- Latvian: “Ģulafehērvāra”
- Lithuanian: “Alba Julija”
- Low German: “Weyssenburg”
- Macedonian: “Алба Јулија”
- Malay: “Alba Iulia”
- Maltese: “Alba Iulia”
- Maltese: “Karlsburg”
- Mandarin Chinese: “Àobā Yóulìyà”
- Minangkabau: “Alba Iulia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alba Iulia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alba Iulia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Apulum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Erdel Belgradı”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karlsburg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Weißenburg”
- Norwegian: “Alba Iulia”
- Old Hungarian: “Dsulafehervaru”
- Old Hungarian: “Fehervaru”
- Ossetian: “Албæ-Юли”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “Erdel Belgradı”
- Persian: “آلبا ایولیا”
- Persian: “البا لولیا”
- Polish: “Alba Iulia”
- Polish: “Alba Julia”
- Polish: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Portuguese: “Alba Iulia”
- Portuguese: “Alba Júlia”
- Romanian: “Alba Iulia”
- Romanian: “Alba-Iulia”
- Romanian: “Bălgrad” (historical)
- Russian: “Алба-Юлия”
- Russian: “Карлсбург”
- Scots: “Alba Iulia”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Alba Iulia”
- Serbian: “Alba Iulia”
- Serbian: “Alba Julija”
- Serbian: “Алба Јулија”
- Serbian: “Ердељски Београд” (historical)
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alba Iulia”
- Silesian: “Alba Iulia”
- Slovak: “Alba Iulia”
- Slovak: “Karlov Belehrad” (historical)
- Slovenian: “Alba Iulia”
- Slovenian: “Gyulafehérvár”
- South Azerbaijani: “آلبا ایولیا”
- Spanish: “Alba Iulia”
- Spanish: “Ciudadela Blanca”
- Spanish: “Gyulafehervar”
- Spanish: “Gyulafehervár”
- Spanish: “Gyulafehérvar”
- Spanish: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Swedish: “Alba Iulia”
- Swedish: “Gyulafehervar”
- Swedish: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Swedish: “Karlsburg”
- Tajik: “Alba-Julija”
- Tajik: “Алба-Юлия”
- Tamil: “அல்பா லூலியா”
- Tatar: “Алба-Юлия”
- Thai: “อัลบายูลียา”
- Thai: “อาลบายูเลีย”
- Turkish: “Alba Iulia”
- Turkish: “Alba Julia”
- Turkish: “Belgrad-i Erdel”
- Turkish: “Erdel Belgradı”
- Turkish: “Gyulafehervar”
- Turkish: “Gyulafehérvár”
- Ukrainian: “Алба-Юлія”
- Ukrainian: “Карлсбург”
- Upper Sorbian: “Alba Iulia”
- Urdu: “البا یولیا”
- Uzbek: “Alba Iulia”
- Vietnamese: “Alba Iulia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alba Iulia”
- Western Panjabi: “البا ایولیا”
- Wu Chinese: “阿尔巴尤利亚”
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