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Melnik

Melnik is a "town-museum" in , surrounded by curious geological formations. The smallest town in the country, it's also known for its wine and its architecture.
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  • Type: Town with 325 residents
  • Description: city in Sandanski municipality, Blagoevgrad oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Melnik, Bulgaria”
  • Postal code: 2820

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kordopulov House and Melnik History Museum.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a large late Ottoman style house in the southwestern town of Melnik. It was built in 1754 specifically for wine production and was bought by the Greek merchant Manolis Kordopoulos.

Museum
Photo: Svik, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Community center
Photo: Мико, CC BY 4.0.
is a community center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lozenitsa and Vinogradi.

Village
Photo: Bovlad62, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in the municipality of , in , .

Village
is a village in the municipality of , in , . on in is named after the village.

Hamlet
Photo: Кочев, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in the municipality of , in , . It is situated at the south-western foothills of the Pirin mountain range and is nestled within the Melnik Earth Pyramids.

Melnik

Latitude
41.5229° or 41° 31′ 23″ north
Longitude
23.3932° or 23° 23′ 36″ east
Population
325
Elevation
392 metres (1,286 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BG MEL
Open location code
8GH5G9FV+57
Open­Street­Map ID
node 331855323
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
729159
Wiki­data ID
Q599994
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Melnik” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميلنيك”
  • Armenian: “Մելնիկ”
  • Belarusian: “Мелнік”
  • Bulgarian: “ГР.МЕЛНИК”
  • Bulgarian: “Мелник”
  • Catalan: “Melnik”
  • Catalan: “Mèlnik”
  • Cebuano: “Melnik”
  • Chinese: “梅爾尼克”
  • Church Slavic: “Мєльникъ”
  • Czech: “Melnik”
  • Dutch: “Melnik”
  • Esperanto: “Melnik”
  • Estonian: “Melnik (Bulgaaria)”
  • Estonian: “Melnik”
  • French: “Melnik”
  • Georgian: “მელნიკი”
  • German: “Melnik”
  • Greek: “Μελένικο”
  • Hebrew: “מלניק”
  • Hungarian: “Melnik”
  • Irish: “Melnik”
  • Italian: “Melnik”
  • Japanese: “メルニク (ブルガリア)”
  • Japanese: “メルニック”
  • Kazakh: “Мелник (Благоевград облысы)”
  • Kazakh: “Мелник”
  • Lithuanian: “Melnikas”
  • Macedonian: “Мелник”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melnik”
  • Persian: “ملنیک”
  • Polish: “Melnik”
  • Portuguese: “Melnik (Bulgária)”
  • Portuguese: “Melnik”
  • Romanian: “Melnik, Bulgaria”
  • Russian: “Мелник”
  • Serbian: “Мелник”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ملنیک, بولغاریستان”
  • Spanish: “Mélnik”
  • Swedish: “Melnik”
  • Tatar: “Мелник”
  • Turkish: “Melnik (Bulgaristan)”
  • Turkish: “Melnik, Bulgaristan”
  • Turkish: “Melnik”
  • Turkish: “Menlik”
  • Ukrainian: “Мелник”
  • Vietnamese: “Melnik”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melnik, Bulgaria”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Melnik”. Photo: Klearchos Kapoutsis, CC BY 2.0.