Velenje
Velenje is the sixth-largest city of Slovenia, and the seat of the Municipality of Velenje. Velenje was owned by the Habsburgs for several centuries, which is reflected in the exceptionally rich legacy of castles and manors.
Photo: Blazev, Public domain.- Type: Town with 25,800 residents
- Description: city in Slovenia
- Also known as: “SI-133”, “Titiovo Velenje”, “Titovo Velenje”, and “Wöllan”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Red Hall and St. Martin’s Parish Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kavče and Arnače.
Velenje
- Categories: city, cultural heritage site in Slovenia, and locality
- Location: Urban Municipality of Velenje, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.35929° or 46° 21′ 33″ north
Longitude
15.11503° or 15° 6′ 54″ east
Population
25,800
Elevation
428 metres (1,404 feet)
UN/LOCODE
SI VEL
Open location code
8FRQ9458+P2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Velenje” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Velenje”
- Amharic: “ቬለንጄ”
- Arabic: “فيلينيه”
- Arabic: “فيلينييه”
- Armenian: “Վելենիե”
- Asturian: “Velenje”
- Azerbaijani: “Velenje”
- Azerbaijani: “Velenye”
- Basque: “Velenje”
- Belarusian: “Вяленье”
- Bengali: “ভেলেনজে”
- Bengali: “ভেলেনি”
- Bosnian: “Velenje”
- Bulgarian: “Велене”
- Catalan: “Velenje”
- Cebuano: “Velenje”
- Chechen: “Велене”
- Chinese: “韋萊涅”
- Chinese: “韦莱涅”
- Croatian: “Velenje”
- Czech: “Velenje”
- Danish: “Velenje”
- Dutch: “Velenje”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيلينيه”
- Esperanto: “Velenje”
- Estonian: “Velenje”
- Finnish: “Velenje”
- French: “Velenje”
- Friulian: “Velenje”
- Georgian: “ველენიე”
- German: “Velenje”
- Greek: “Βελένιε”
- Greek: “Βέλενιε”
- Gujarati: “વેલેંજે”
- Hausa: “Velenje”
- Hindi: “वेलेन्जे”
- Hindi: “वेलेन्ये”
- Hungarian: “Velenje”
- Indonesian: “Velenje”
- Italian: “Velenje”
- Japanese: “ヴェレニエ”
- Javanese: “Velenje”
- Kannada: “ವೆಲೆಂಜೆ”
- Kazakh: “Веленье”
- Kirghiz: “Веленье”
- Korean: “벨레네”
- Korean: “벨레녜”
- Latvian: “Velenje”
- Lithuanian: “Velenė”
- Macedonian: “Велење”
- Malay: “Velenje”
- Marathi: “वेलेंजे”
- Moksha: “Вэлэнье”
- Northern Frisian: “Velenje”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Velenje”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Velenje”
- Norwegian: “Velenje”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Velenje”
- Oromo: “Velenje”
- Ossetian: “Веленье”
- Panjabi: “ਵੇਲੇਂਜੇ”
- Persian: “ولنجه”
- Persian: “ولنیه”
- Polish: “Velenje”
- Portuguese: “Velenje”
- Pushto: “ویلنجی”
- Romanian: “Velenje”
- Russian: “Веленье”
- Scots: “Velenje”
- Serbian: “Велење”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Velenje”
- Sinhala: “වෙලෙන්ජේ”
- Slovak: “Velenje”
- Slovenian: “Mestna občina Velenje”
- Slovenian: “Velenje”
- Somali: “Velenje”
- Spanish: “Velenje”
- Swahili: “Velenje”
- Swedish: “Velenje”
- Tajik: “Веленье”
- Tamil: “வேலஞ்சே”
- Tatar: “Велене”
- Tatar: “Веленье”
- Telugu: “వెలెంజి”
- Thai: “แวแลนิแย”
- Turkish: “Velenje”
- Ukrainian: “Веленє”
- Urdu: “ویلنجے”
- Urdu: “ویلینجی”
- Urdu: “ویلیینیے”
- Uzbek: “Velenje”
- Vietnamese: “Velenje”
- Volapük: “Velenje”
- Welsh: “Velenje”
- Western Panjabi: “ویلینیو”
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Places to explore: Staro Velenje and Šmartno.
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Highlights: Titov trg and Kulturni dom Velenje.
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