Biertan
Biertan is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. The commune is composed of three villages: Biertan, Copșa Mare, and Richiș, each of which has a fortified church.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Andrei Dan Suciu, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Village with 2,940 residents
- Description: commune in Sibiu County, Romania
- Also known as: “Birthälm” and “Birthelm”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Fortified Church of Biertan and The Fortified Church of Copșa Mare.
The Fortified Church of Biertan
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Biertan fortified church is a Lutheran fortified church in Biertan, Sibiu County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. It was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Biertan and Copșa Mare.
Biertan
- Category: commune of Romania
- Location: Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.1348° or 46° 8′ 5″ northLongitude
24.5224° or 24° 31′ 21″ eastPopulation
2,940Elevation
380 metres (1,247 feet)Open location code
8GR64GMC+WXOpenStreetMap ID
way 75231571
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Biertan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Biertan”
- Bulgarian: “Биертан”
- Catalan: “Biertan”
- Cebuano: “Comuna Biertan”
- Chechen: “Б’ертан (коммуна)”
- Chechen: “Б’ертан”
- Chinese: “Biertan”
- Chinese: “別爾坦鄉”
- Dutch: “Biertan”
- Esperanto: “Biertan”
- French: “Biertan”
- German: “Berethalom”
- German: “Biertan”
- German: “Birthälm”
- Hungarian: “Berethalom község”
- Hungarian: “Berethalom”
- Irish: “Biertan”
- Italian: “Biertan”
- Japanese: “ビエルタン”
- Malay: “Biertan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Biertan”
- Polish: “Biertan”
- Portuguese: “Biertan”
- Romanian: “Biertan”
- Romanian: “Comuna Biertan, Sibiu”
- Romanian: “Comuna Biertan”
- Serbian: “Општина Биертан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Biertan, Sibiu”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Biertan”
- Slovak: “Biertan”
- Spanish: “Biertan”
- Swedish: “Biertan”
- Tatar: “Б’ертан (коммуна)”
- Tatar: “Б’ертан”
- Thai: “บีเยร์ตัน”
- Turkish: “Bertan”
- Turkish: “Biertan”
- Ukrainian: “Б’єртан”
- Ukrainian: “Бєртан”
- Vietnamese: “Biertan”
- Volapük: “Biertan”
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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 Wikipedia page “Biertan”. Photo: Andrei Dan Suciu, CC BY 3.0.