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Ohrid

Ohrid

Ohrid is a town in southwestern on the shore of Lake Ohrid. A town of vast history and heritage, it was made a UNESCO heritage site in 1980.
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  • Type: City with 38,900 residents
  • Description: town in North Macedonia
  • Also known as: “Akhris” and “Okhri”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Samuil’s Fortress and Church of St. Sophia.

Photo: PetarM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Samuel's Fortress is a fortress in the old town of Ohrid, . It was the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire during the rule of Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria at the turn of the 11th century.

Church
Photo: PetarM, CC BY 3.0 rs.
The Church of Saint Sophia is a church in Ohrid, . The church is one of the most important monuments of North Macedonia, housing architecture and art from the Middle Ages.

Theater building
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The of Ohrid is located in Ohrid, . It was built in 200 BC and is the only Hellenistic-type theatre in the country as the other three in , and Heraklea Lynkestis are from Roman times.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leskoec.

Village
Photo: Kiril Simeonovski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a in the municipality of , .

Ohrid

Latitude
41.117° or 41° 7′ 1″ north
Longitude
20.8018° or 20° 48′ 6″ east
Population
38,900
Elevation
701 metres (2,300 feet)
IATA airport code
OHD
United Nations Location Code
MK OHD
Open location code
8GH24R82+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1851487116
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
787487
Wiki­data ID
Q1223508
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Ohrid” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Oher”
  • Albanian: “Ohër”
  • Albanian: “Ohri”
  • Albanian: “Ohrit”
  • Arabic: “أوخريد”
  • Aragonese: “Agrida”
  • Armenian: “Օխրիդ”
  • Asturian: “Ohrid”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oxrid”
  • Bashkir: “Охрид”
  • Basque: “Ohrid”
  • Belarusian: “Охрыд”
  • Bengali: “ওহরিড”
  • Bosnian: “Ohrid”
  • Bulgarian: “Охрид”
  • Burmese: “အိုရစ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ocrida”
  • Catalan: “Ohrid”
  • Catalan: “Okhrida”
  • Cebuano: “Ohrid (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Ohrid”
  • Chinese: “Ohrid”
  • Chinese: “奥赫里德”
  • Chinese: “奧赫里德”
  • Church Slavic: “Охрі́дъ”
  • Church Slavic: “Охрїдъ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ohrid”
  • Croatian: “Ohrid”
  • Czech: “Ochrid”
  • Czech: “Ohrid”
  • Danish: “Ohrid”
  • Dutch: “Ohri”
  • Dutch: “Ohrid”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوخريد”
  • Esperanto: “Ohrid”
  • Estonian: “Lychnidos”
  • Estonian: “Ohrid”
  • Finnish: “Ohrid”
  • French: “Ohrid”
  • Galician: “Ohrid”
  • Georgian: “ოხრიდი”
  • Georgian: “ოჰრიდი”
  • German: “MK-58”
  • German: “Ochrid”
  • German: “Ohrid”
  • Greek: “Αχρίδα”
  • Greek: “Λυχνίδα”
  • Greek: “Λυχνιδός”
  • Greek: “Λυχνίς”
  • Greek: “Οχρίδα”
  • Gujarati: “ઓહ્રિડ”
  • Hebrew: “אוהריד”
  • Hebrew: “אוחריד”
  • Hebrew: “אוכריד”
  • Hindi: “ओहरिड”
  • Hungarian: “Ohrid”
  • Indonesian: “Ohrid”
  • Irish: “Ohrid”
  • Italian: “Achrida”
  • Italian: “Lychnidos”
  • Italian: “Municipio di Ocrida”
  • Italian: “Ochrida”
  • Italian: “Ocrida”
  • Italian: “Ohrid”
  • Japanese: “オフリダ”
  • Japanese: “オフリド”
  • Japanese: “オフリド地域の自然遺産及び文化遺産”
  • Kannada: “ಓಹ್ರಿದ್”
  • Kazakh: “Охрид”
  • Kirghiz: “Охрид”
  • Korean: “오흐리드”
  • Latin: “Achrida”
  • Latvian: “Ohrida”
  • Lithuanian: “Ochridas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ohridas”
  • Lombard: “Ocrida”
  • Lombard: “Òcrida”
  • Lombard: “Ohrid”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Ohrid”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ohrid”
  • Macedonian: “Ohrid”
  • Macedonian: “Охрид”
  • Malay: “Ohrid”
  • Malay: “اوخريد”
  • Maltese: “Oħrid”
  • Marathi: “ऑह्रिद”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ohrid”
  • Mingrelian: “ოჰრიდი”
  • Moksha: “Охрид”
  • Nauru: “Ohrid”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ohrid”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ohrid”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ohrid”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Охрид”
  • Norwegian: “Ohrid”
  • Ossetian: “Охрид”
  • Persian: “اهرید”
  • Persian: “اوهرید”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Okhrid”
  • Polish: “Ochryda”
  • Polish: “Ohrid”
  • Portuguese: “Achrida”
  • Portuguese: “Ácrida”
  • Portuguese: “Ocrida”
  • Portuguese: “Ohrid”
  • Pushto: “اوهرید”
  • Romanian: “Ohrid”
  • Romanian: “Ohrida”
  • Russian: “Лихнидос”
  • Russian: “Охрид”
  • Scots: “Ohrid”
  • Serbian: “Ohrid”
  • Serbian: “Охрид (град)”
  • Serbian: “Охрид”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ohrid”
  • Sinhala: “ඔහ්රිඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Ochrid”
  • Slovak: “Ohrid”
  • Slovenian: “Ohrid”
  • Spanish: “Ocrida”
  • Spanish: “Ohrid”
  • Swedish: “Achrida”
  • Swedish: “Lihnida”
  • Swedish: “Lychnidos”
  • Swedish: “Lychnidus”
  • Swedish: “Ochrid”
  • Swedish: “Ochrida”
  • Swedish: “Ohër”
  • Swedish: “Ohri”
  • Swedish: “Ohrid”
  • Tamil: “ஒரிட்”
  • Tatar: “Охрид”
  • Telugu: “ఒహ్రిడ్”
  • Thai: “ออคริต”
  • Thai: “โอครีด”
  • Turkish: “Ohri (Ohrid)”
  • Turkish: “Ohri ili”
  • Turkish: “Ohri”
  • Turkish: “Ohrid”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліхнідос”
  • Ukrainian: “Охрид”
  • Ukrainian: “Охрід”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ohrid”
  • Urdu: “آکریڈا”
  • Urdu: “اوخرید”
  • Vietnamese: “Ohrid”
  • Volapük: “Ohrid”
  • Welsh: “Ohrid”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥赫里德”

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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 “Ohrid”. Photo: Avramescu Marius, CC BY-SA 4.0.