Berat

Berat is a city in . In 2008 it was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as it is a rare example of a well-preserved Ottoman city. It is one of the country's most beautiful cities, and is known as the "city of a thousand windows".
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  • Type: City with 65,000 residents
  • Description: city located in south-central Albania
  • Also known as: “Beligrad”, “Beration”, “Berta”, “Lezskigrad”, “Verati”, and “Veration”
  • Address: BASHKIA BERAT

Places of Interest

Highlights include Berat Castle and Onufri Iconographic Museum.

Photo: Terfili, Public domain.
, also referred to as the Citadel of Berat and castle quarter, is a fortress overlooking the town of Berat, . It dates mainly from the 13th century and contains many Byzantine-era Albanian Orthodox churches in the area and Ottoman-era mosques.

Museum
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The is an national museum dedicated to Byzantine art and iconography in Berat, . The museum is located inside the Church of the Dormition of St Mary in the Berat.

Mosque
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The , also known as the Sultan Bayezid II Mosque, is a ruined in , Berat, . The former mosque was designated as a Cultural Monument of Albania in 1961; and forms part of the Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastër, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was designated in 2005.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dushnik.

Village
is a village in the former municipality of Otllak in , . At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Berat.

Berat

Latitude
40.7019° or 40° 42′ 7″ north
Longitude
19.9581° or 19° 57′ 29″ east
Population
65,000
Elevation
66 metres (217 feet)
United Nations Location Code
AL BRT
Open location code
8FGXPX25+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5197045817
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3186084
Wiki­data ID
Q170244
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Berat” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Berat”
  • Albanian: “Berat”
  • Albanian: “Berati”
  • Arabic: “بيرات”
  • Armenian: “Բերատ”
  • Armenian: “Բերատի”
  • Asturian: “Berat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Berat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bərat”
  • Basque: “Berat”
  • Belarusian: “Берат”
  • Belarusian: “Бэрат”
  • Bengali: “বেরাত”
  • Bulgarian: “Белград”
  • Bulgarian: “Берат”
  • Burmese: “ဘီရက်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Berat”
  • Cebuano: “Berat”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێرات”
  • Chechen: “Берат”
  • Chinese: “Berat”
  • Chinese: “培拉特”
  • Chinese: “贝拉特”
  • Corsican: “Berat”
  • Croatian: “Berat”
  • Czech: “Albánský Bělehrad”
  • Czech: “Berat”
  • Czech: “Berati”
  • Danish: “Berat”
  • Dutch: “Berat”
  • Dutch: “Berati”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيرات”
  • Esperanto: “Berat”
  • Estonian: “Berat”
  • Finnish: “Berat”
  • French: “Berat”
  • French: “Berati”
  • Friulian: “Berat”
  • Galician: “Berat”
  • Georgian: “ბერატი”
  • German: “Antipatraea”
  • German: “Antipatrea”
  • German: “Berat”
  • German: “Berati”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌴𐍂𐌰𐍄”
  • Greek: “Αντιπάτρεια”
  • Greek: “Βελλέγραδα”
  • Greek: “Βεράτι”
  • Greek: “Βεράτιο”
  • Greek: “Μπεράτ”
  • Greek: “Μπεράτι”
  • Greek: “Πουλχεριόπολις”
  • Gujarati: “બેરટ”
  • Hebrew: “בראט”
  • Hindi: “बेरत”
  • Hindi: “बेरात”
  • Hungarian: “Berat”
  • Hungarian: “Berati”
  • Icelandic: “Berat”
  • Ido: “Berat”
  • Indonesian: “Berat, Albania”
  • Indonesian: “Berat”
  • Interlingua: “Berat”
  • Interlingue: “Berat”
  • Irish: “Berat”
  • Italian: “Berat”
  • Italian: “Berati”
  • Japanese: “ベラト”
  • Javanese: “Berat”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆರಾಟ್”
  • Kongo: “Berat”
  • Korean: “베라트”
  • Korean: “베라티”
  • Kotava: “Berat”
  • Ladin: “Berat”
  • Latin: “Antipatrea”
  • Latvian: “Berati”
  • Ligurian: “Berat”
  • Lithuanian: “Beratas”
  • Lithuanian: “Beratis”
  • Lombard: “Berat”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Berat”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Berat”
  • Macedonian: “Белград”
  • Macedonian: “Берат”
  • Malagasy: “Berat”
  • Malay: “Berat, Albania”
  • Malay: “Berat”
  • Maltese: “Berat”
  • Marathi: “बेराट”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Berat”
  • Mingrelian: “ბერატი”
  • Moksha: “Бэрат”
  • Mongolian: “Берат”
  • Narom: “Berat”
  • Neapolitan: “Berat”
  • Northern Frisian: “Berat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Berat”
  • Norwegian: “Berat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Berat”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Berat”
  • Persian: “برات”
  • Picard: “Berat”
  • Piemontese: “Berat”
  • Polish: “Berat”
  • Polish: “Berati”
  • Pontic: “Μπεράτ”
  • Portuguese: “Berat”
  • Portuguese: “Berati”
  • Romanian: “Berat”
  • Romansh: “Berat”
  • Russian: “Антипатрея”
  • Russian: “Берат”
  • Russian: “Берати”
  • Russian: “Пульхериополис”
  • Sardinian: “Berat”
  • Scots: “Berat”
  • Serbian: “Berat”
  • Serbian: “Берат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Berat”
  • Sicilian: “Berat”
  • Silesian: “Berati”
  • Sinhala: “බෙරට්, ඇල්බේනියාව”
  • Sinhala: “බෙරට්”
  • Slovak: “Berat”
  • Slovak: “Berati”
  • Slovenian: “Berat”
  • Spanish: “Berat”
  • Swahili: “Berat”
  • Swedish: “Berat”
  • Swiss German: “Berat”
  • Talysh: “Berat”
  • Tamil: “பிரெட்”
  • Tatar: “Берат”
  • Telugu: “బేరట్”
  • Thai: “เบรัต”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Berat”
  • Tumbuka: “Berat”
  • Turkish: “Berat”
  • Ukrainian: “Берат”
  • Urdu: “بیرات”
  • Uzbek: “Berat”
  • Venetian: “Berat”
  • Vietnamese: “Berat”
  • Vlaams: “Berat”
  • Volapük: “Berati”
  • Walloon: “Berat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Berat”
  • Western Armenian: “Բերատ”
  • Western Armenian: “Պերաթ”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیرات”
  • Wu Chinese: “培拉特”
  • Yue Chinese: “培拉特”
  • “Bãrat”
  • “Berat”

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