Karlovo

Karlovo is a beautiful town of about 20,000 inhabitants in the of Bulgaria. It's best known as the birthplace of Bulgarian national hero Vasil Levski who organised an uprising against the Ottoman rule in the late 19th century.
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  • Type: Town with 23,900 residents
  • Description: city in Karlovo municipality, Plovdiv oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Carlova”, “Grad Karlove”, and “Levskigrad”
  • Postal code: 4300
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vasil Levski National Museum and Museum of History.

Museum
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Museum
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Mosque
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kurshum Mosque, officially the Kurshum Djamia Mosque, is a located in Karlovo, in the of . The Kurshum Mosque was built in 1485 by Karlu Ali Bey.

Karlovo

Latitude
42.6358° or 42° 38′ 9″ north
Longitude
24.8048° or 24° 48′ 17″ east
Population
23,900
Elevation
406 metres (1,332 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BG KVO
Open location code
8GJ6JRP3+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 273488854
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
730565
Wiki­data ID
Q316841
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Karlovo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كارلوفو”
  • Armenian: “Կառլովո”
  • Bashkir: “Карлово (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Карлово”
  • Belarusian: “Карлава”
  • Bulgarian: “ГР.КАРЛОВО”
  • Bulgarian: “Карлово”
  • Bulgarian: “Левскиград”
  • Catalan: “Karlovo”
  • Cebuano: “Karlovo”
  • Central Kurdish: “کارلۆڤۆ”
  • Chinese: “Карлово”
  • Chinese: “卡尔洛沃”
  • Chinese: “卡洛夫”
  • Chinese: “卡爾洛佛”
  • Chinese: “卡爾洛沃”
  • Church Slavic: “Карлово”
  • Croatian: “Karlovo”
  • Czech: “Karlovo”
  • Danish: “Karlovo”
  • Dutch: “Karlovo”
  • Esperanto: “Karlovo”
  • Finnish: “Karlovo”
  • French: “Karlovo”
  • German: “Karlovo”
  • German: “Karlowo”
  • Greek: “Κάρλοβο”
  • Hebrew: “קארלובו”
  • Hebrew: “קרלובו”
  • Hungarian: “Karlovo”
  • Irish: “Karlovo”
  • Japanese: “カルロヴォ”
  • Kazakh: “Karlovo”
  • Kazakh: “Карлово”
  • Kazakh: “كارلوۆو”
  • Korean: “카를로보”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlovas”
  • Macedonian: “Карлово”
  • Ossetian: “Карлово”
  • Persian: “کارلووو”
  • Polish: “Karłowo”
  • Portuguese: “Karlovo”
  • Romanian: “Karlovo, Bulgaria”
  • Romanian: “Karlovo”
  • Russian: “Карлово”
  • Serbian: “Karlovo”
  • Serbian: “Карлово”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karlovo”
  • Slovak: “Karlovo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارلوو”
  • Spanish: “Karlovo”
  • Swedish: “Karlovo”
  • Tatar: “Карлово”
  • Turkish: “Karlıova, Bulgaristan”
  • Turkish: “Karlıova”
  • Turkish: “Karlova”
  • Turkish: “Karlovo”
  • Ukrainian: “Карлово”
  • Ukrainian: “Левськиград”
  • Urdu: “کارلووو”
  • Uzbek: “Karlovo”
  • Vietnamese: “Karlovo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Karlovo”

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