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Nišava District

Niš

Niš is a city in . The administrative centre of the Nišava District, it's a must-see historical city for any traveller passing through on their way to or the .
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  • Type: City with 179,000 residents
  • Description: city in southern Serbia
  • Also known as: “Naissus”, “Nich”, “Nis”, “Nisch”, “Nish”, and “Nissa”
Photo: Cveleglg, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Memorial complex „12th February“ and Niš Fortress.

Museum
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Crveni Krst, also known as the Niš concentration camp, was a concentration camp operated by the German Gestapo located in the municipality of Niš, in German-occupied Serbia.

Castle
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is a fortress in the city of Niš, . It is a complex and important cultural and historical monument. It rises on the right bank of the River, overlooking the area inhabited for longer than two millennia.

Stadium
Photo: Zastavafan76, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a multi-purpose stadium in Niš, . It is used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Radnički Niš. After a partial reconstruction that began in 2011, the renovated stadium re-opened to the public on 15 September 2012.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Medijana and Palilula neighbourhood, Niš.

Suburb
Photo: Cveleglg, Public domain.
is one of five city municipalities which constitute the city of Niš. It is the central and the most populous city municipality of Niš with a population of 85,969 inhabitants.

Suburb
Palilula is a neighborhood of the city of Niš, . It is located in Niš municipality of .

Suburb
Pantelej is a neighborhood of the city of Niš, . It is located in Niš municipality of Pantelej.

Niš

Latitude
43.3211° or 43° 19′ 16″ north
Longitude
21.8959° or 21° 53′ 45″ east
Population
179,000
Elevation
194 metres (636 feet)
IATA airport code
INI
United Nations Location Code
RS INI
Open location code
8GM38VCW+F9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 100890898
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
787657
Wiki­data ID
Q129259
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Niš” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Nish”
  • Albanian: “Nishi”
  • Arabic: “نيش”
  • Armenian: “Նիշ”
  • Asturian: “Nis”
  • Asturian: “Niš”
  • Asturian: “Nix”
  • Azerbaijani: “Niş”
  • Basque: “Niš”
  • Belarusian: “Ніш”
  • Bengali: “নিশ”
  • Bosnian: “Niš”
  • Breton: “Niš”
  • Bulgarian: “Ниш”
  • Catalan: “Nis”
  • Catalan: “Niš”
  • Catalan: “Nish”
  • Cebuano: “Niš”
  • Chechen: “Ниш”
  • Chinese: “尼什”
  • Church Slavic: “Нишь”
  • Chuvash: “Ниш”
  • Croatian: “Niš”
  • Czech: “Naissos”
  • Czech: “Naissus”
  • Czech: “Niš”
  • Danish: “Naissus”
  • Danish: “Nis”
  • Danish: “Niš”
  • Danish: “Nisa”
  • Danish: “Nish”
  • Dutch: “Nis”
  • Dutch: “Niš”
  • Dutch: “Nisj”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيش”
  • Esperanto: “Naissos”
  • Esperanto: “Naissus”
  • Esperanto: “Niŝ”
  • Esperanto: “Niš”
  • Esperanto: “Niŝo”
  • Estonian: “Niš”
  • Finnish: “Naissus”
  • Finnish: “Nis”
  • Finnish: “Niš”
  • French: “Niš”
  • French: “Nish”
  • Georgian: “ნიში”
  • German: “Naissos”
  • German: “Naissus”
  • German: “Niš”
  • Greek: “Ναισσός”
  • Greek: “Ναϊσσός”
  • Greek: “Νις”
  • Gujarati: “નિસ”
  • Hebrew: “ניש”
  • Hindi: “निस”
  • Hungarian: “Niš”
  • Ido: “Niš”
  • Indonesian: “Nis”
  • Indonesian: “Niš”
  • Interlingue: “Niš”
  • Irish: “Nís”
  • Italian: “Naisso”
  • Italian: “Niš”
  • Japanese: “ナイスス”
  • Japanese: “ニシュ”
  • Javanese: “Nis”
  • Javanese: “Niš”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ниш”
  • Korean: “니슈”
  • Korean: “니시”
  • Latin: “Naissus”
  • Latvian: “Niša”
  • Lithuanian: “Nišas”
  • Lombard: “Niš”
  • Luxembourgish: “Niš”
  • Macedonian: “Ниш”
  • Malay: “Nis”
  • Malay: “Niš”
  • Maltese: “Nis”
  • Maltese: “Niš”
  • Marathi: “नीस”
  • Moksha: “Ниш”
  • Mongolian: “Ниш”
  • Nauru: “Niš”
  • Nauru: “Nish”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Niš”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Naissos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Niš”
  • Norwegian: “Niš”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Niš”
  • Ossetian: “Ниш”
  • Persian: “نایسوس”
  • Persian: “نيش”
  • Persian: “نیش”
  • Polish: “Naissus”
  • Polish: “Niš”
  • Polish: “Nisz”
  • Portuguese: “Naissus”
  • Portuguese: “Nis”
  • Portuguese: “Niš”
  • Portuguese: “Nish”
  • Pushto: “نیش ښار”
  • Romanian: “Niš”
  • Romanian: “Niş”
  • Romanian: “Niș”
  • Russian: “Ниш”
  • Rusyn: “Ніш”
  • Scots: “Niš”
  • Serbian: “Grad Niš”
  • Serbian: “Niš”
  • Serbian: “Град Ниш”
  • Serbian: “Ниш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Niš”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ниш”
  • Silesian: “Niš”
  • Sinhala: “නිශ”
  • Slovak: “Niš”
  • Slovenian: “Niš”
  • Southern Sotho: “Niš”
  • Spanish: “Naiso”
  • Spanish: “Naissus”
  • Spanish: “Nis”
  • Spanish: “Niš”
  • Spanish: “Nîs”
  • Spanish: “Nish”
  • Swahili: “Niš”
  • Swedish: “Morla Kuqe”
  • Swedish: “Naissus”
  • Swedish: “Navissos”
  • Swedish: “Nis”
  • Swedish: “Niš”
  • Swedish: “Nish”
  • Swedish: “Nisj”
  • Tamil: “நைஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Ниш”
  • Telugu: “నిస్”
  • Thai: “Nis”
  • Thai: “Niš”
  • Thai: “นีช”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Nis”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Niš”
  • Turkish: “Naissus”
  • Turkish: “Niş, Sırbistan”
  • Turkish: “Niš”
  • Turkish: “Niş”
  • Ukrainian: “Ниш”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніш”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Niš”
  • Urdu: “نیش”
  • Uzbek: “Nish”
  • Venetian: “Niš”
  • Vietnamese: “Nis”
  • Vietnamese: “Niš”
  • Volapük: “Niš”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Niš”
  • Western Frisian: “Niš”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیش شہر”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼什”
  • Yiddish: “ניש”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼什”
  • “Niš”

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