Karlovo
Karlovo is a beautiful town of about 20,000 inhabitants in the Balkan Mountains 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kurshum Mosque and Vasil Levski.
Kurshum Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kurshum Mosque, officially the Kurshum Djamia Mosque, is a mosque located in Karlovo, in the Plovdiv Province of Bulgaria. The Kurshum Mosque was built in 1485 by Karlu Ali Bey.
Vasil Levski
Memorial
Photo: Gitanes232, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Vasil Levski Monument stands in Vasil Levski Square in Karlovo, Bulgaria, between the churches of St. Nicholas and the Holy Mother. The foundation stone of the monument was laid on 15 May 1903, in front of prince regnant Ferdinand I.
Levski Hydroelectric Plant, Karlovo
Power station
Photo: Vislupus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Levski Hydroelectric Plant, Karlovo is a power station.
Karlovo
- Categories: municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Karlovo, Plovdiv, Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.6358° or 42° 38′ 9″ northLongitude
24.8048° or 24° 48′ 17″ eastPopulation
23,900Elevation
406 metres (1,332 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG KVOOpen location code
8GJ6JRP3+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 273488854OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Karlovo” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կառլովո”
- Bashkir: “Карлово (ҡала)”
- Bashkir: “Карлово”
- Belarusian: “Карлава”
- Bulgarian: “ГР.КАРЛОВО”
- Bulgarian: “Карлово”
- Bulgarian: “Левскиград”
- 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”
- Uzbek: “Karlovo”
- Vietnamese: “Karlovo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Karlovo”
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