Lovech

Lovech is a city in , on the river Osam under the foothills of the . A gateway to the important pass Beklemeto and the mountain crafts centre Troyan, it's also home to a number of preserved 19th-century buildings and a covered bridge.
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  • Type: City with 37,300 residents
  • Description: city in Lovech municipality, Lovech oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Gemeinde Lowetsch”, “Lovča”, “Lovcha”, “Lòvech”, “Lovets”, “Lovetsh”, “Lowatz”, “Lòwetsch”, “Owetsch”, “ГР.ЛОВЕЧ”, “Ловешка комуна”, and “Ловча”
  • Postal code: 5500
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Lovech Fortress and Lovech.

Photo: Nk, Public domain.
is a medieval stronghold in Lovech…

Railway station
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station.

Monument
Photo: Plamko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a monument.

Lovech

Latitude
43.135° or 43° 8′ 6″ north
Longitude
24.7154° or 24° 42′ 56″ east
Population
37,300
Elevation
201 metres (659 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BG LVP
Open location code
8GM64PM8+X5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31058179
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
729559
Wiki­data ID
Q189328
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Lovech” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Lovech”
  • Amharic: “ሎቬች”
  • Arabic: “لوفتش”
  • Armenian: “Լովեչ”
  • Asturian: “Lovech”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lofça”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lovech”
  • Bashkir: “Ловеч”
  • Basque: “Lovetx”
  • Belarusian: “Лавеч”
  • Belarusian: “Ловеч”
  • Belarusian: “Ловэч”
  • Bengali: “লোভেক”
  • Bengali: “লোভেচ”
  • Bulgarian: “Ловеч”
  • Catalan: “Lòvetx”
  • Cebuano: “Lovech”
  • Central Kurdish: “لۆڤێچ”
  • Chechen: “Ловеч”
  • Chinese: “洛維奇”
  • Chinese: “洛维奇”
  • Church Slavic: “Ловьча”
  • Croatian: “Loveč”
  • Czech: “Loveč”
  • Danish: “Lovetj”
  • Dutch: “Lovetsj”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوفتش”
  • Esperanto: “Loveĉ”
  • Estonian: “Loveč”
  • Finnish: “Lovetš”
  • French: “Lovetch”
  • German: “Lovetsch”
  • German: “Lowetsch”
  • Greek: “Λόβετς”
  • Gujarati: “લોવેચ”
  • Hausa: “Lovech”
  • Hebrew: “לובץ‘”
  • Hebrew: “לובץ’”
  • Hebrew: “לובץ”
  • Hindi: “लोवेच”
  • Hungarian: “Lovecs”
  • Indonesian: “Lovech”
  • Irish: “Lovech”
  • Italian: “Loveč”
  • Japanese: “ロヴェチ”
  • Javanese: “Lovech”
  • Kannada: “ಲೊವೆಚ್”
  • Kazakh: “Loveç”
  • Kazakh: “Ловеч”
  • Kazakh: “لوۆەتش”
  • Kirghiz: “Ловеч”
  • Korean: “로베치”
  • Latin: “Melta”
  • Latvian: “Loveča”
  • Lithuanian: “Lovečas”
  • Lombard: “Loveč”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Lovcea”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Loveci”
  • Macedonian: “Ловеч”
  • Malay: “Lovech”
  • Marathi: “लॅव्हेच”
  • Moksha: “Ловэч”
  • Nepali: “लोभेक”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lowetsch (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lowetsch”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lovetsj”
  • Norwegian: “Lovetsj”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Loveč”
  • Oromo: “Lovech”
  • Ossetian: “Ловеч”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੋਵੇਚ”
  • Persian: “لووچ”
  • Polish: “Łowecz”
  • Portuguese: “Lovech”
  • Pushto: “لوویچ”
  • Romanian: “Loveci”
  • Russian: “Ловеч”
  • Scots: “Lovech”
  • Serbian: “Loveč”
  • Serbian: “Ловеч”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Loveč”
  • Sinhala: “ලොවෙක්”
  • Slovak: “Loveč”
  • Slovenian: “Loveč”
  • Somali: “Lovech”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوچ”
  • Spanish: “Lovech”
  • Swahili: “Lovech”
  • Swedish: “Lovetj”
  • Tajik: “Ловеч”
  • Tamil: “லொவெச்”
  • Tatar: “Ловеч”
  • Telugu: “లోవెచ్”
  • Thai: “ลอแวช”
  • Thai: “โลเวช”
  • Turkish: “Lofça”
  • Ukrainian: “Ловеч”
  • Urdu: “لوویچ”
  • Uzbek: “Lovech”
  • Vietnamese: “Lovech”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lovech”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوویچ”
  • Wu Chinese: “洛维奇”

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