Belitsa
Belitsa is a small town in South-Western Bulgaria, and the gateway to the nearby small mountain resort Semkovo on the slopes of the Rila mountains. A bear sanctuary was established there in 2000 for "dancing bears" from Bulgaria and other Balkan countries after the practice was outlawed.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Спасимир, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 3,160 residents
- Description: city in Belitsa municipality, Blagoevgrad oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Bělica”, “Belitso”, “Bjelica”, “Blitsa”, and “Byelitsa”
- Postal codes: 2780 and 2780
Places of Interest
Highlights include Дагоново.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dagonovo and Kraishte.
Dagonovo
Village
Dagonovo is a village in the municipality of Belitsa, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. It is located approximately 8 kilometers east from Belitsa and 85 kilometers southeast from Sofia on the eastern bank of Mesta river.
Kraishte
Village
Photo: Izvora, Public domain.
Kraishte is a village in the municipality of Belitsa, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. It is located approximately 4 kilometers south from Belitsa and 88 kilometers southeast from Sofia. Kraishte is situated 4 km southeast of Belitsa.
Dolno Draglishte
Village
Dolno Draglishte is a village in Razlog Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. Dolno Draglishte is situated 4 km southwest of Belitsa.
Belitsa
- Categories: municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Belitsa, Pirin Macedonia, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.9511° or 41° 57′ 4″ northLongitude
23.5592° or 23° 33′ 33″ eastPopulation
3,160Elevation
916 metres (3,005 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG BELOpen location code
8GH5XH25+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 273488691OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Belitsa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيليتسا”
- Armenian: “Բելիցա”
- Bulgarian: “Белица”
- Bulgarian: “ГР.БЕЛИЦА”
- Cebuano: “Belitsa”
- Central Kurdish: “بێلیتسا”
- Chechen: “Белица (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Белица”
- Chinese: “貝利察”
- Chinese: “贝利察”
- Czech: “Belica”
- Dutch: “Belitsa”
- French: “Belitsa”
- German: “Belitsa”
- German: “Beliza”
- German: “Gemeinde Beliza”
- Hebrew: “בליצה”
- Irish: “Belitsa”
- Japanese: “ベリツァ”
- Kazakh: “Belïca”
- Kazakh: “Белица”
- Kazakh: “بەلىيتسا”
- Macedonian: “Белица”
- Persian: “بلیتسا”
- Polish: “Belica”
- Portuguese: “Belitsa”
- Romanian: “Beliţa”
- Romanian: “Belița”
- Romanian: “Belitza”
- Russian: “Белица”
- Serbian: “Belica”
- Serbian: “Белица”
- Slovenian: “Belica”
- South Azerbaijani: “بلیتسا”
- Spanish: “Belitsa”
- Swedish: “Belitsa”
- Tatar: “Белитса”
- Turkish: “Beliça”
- Turkish: “Beliçe”
- Ukrainian: “Белиця”
- Ukrainian: “Бєліца”
- Uzbek: “Belitsa”
- Vietnamese: “Belitsa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Belitsa”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Belitsa”. Photo: Спасимир, CC BY-SA 4.0.