Pécs

Pécs is a town in the south-west of . Pécs is the administrative and economic centre of . The city has a Mediterranean atmosphere and is treasure trove of science, arts and sacrality.
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  • Type: City with 140,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hungary
  • Also known as: Fuenfkirchen”, “Hird”, “Magyarürügy”, “Málom”, “Meced Sabolc”, “Mecek Sabolc”, “Mecsekalja”, “Mecsekszabolcs”, “Nadapipad”, “Nadarpad”, “Nagyárpád”, “Patacs”, “Pecs”, “Peçuy-”, “Rácváros”, “Somogy”, and “Vasas
Photo: Bo491, CC BY 2.5.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Downtown Candlemas Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Pécs Cathedral.

Church
The , formerly known as the Mosque of Pasha Qasim is a Catholic church in Pécs, , which was a mosque in the 16–17th century due to the Ottoman conquest.

Church
The Sts. Peter and Paul's Cathedral Basilica, also called , is a religious building of the Catholic church that serves as the cathedral of the Diocese of Pécs, and is located in the city of Pécs, .

Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
The is an early 17th-century mosque in Pécs, southern . It was constructed when the region was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, together with the main mosque of Pécs, the Mosque of Pasha Qasim.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kozármisleny.

Town
is a town in , southern . It is south-east of the city of Pécs.

Pécs

Latitude
46.0765° or 46° 4′ 35″ north
Longitude
18.228° or 18° 13′ 41″ east
Population
140,000
Elevation
155 metres (509 feet)
IATA airport code
PEV
United Nations Location Code
HU PEC
Open location code
8FRW36GH+J6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17550787
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3046526
Wiki­data ID
Q45779
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pécs” goes by many names.
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  • Albanian: Pécs
  • Arabic: بيتش
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  • Armenian: Պեչ
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  • Azerbaijani: Peç
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  • Bashkir: Печ (ҡала, Венгрия)
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  • Bengali: পিকস
  • Bosnian: Pečuh
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  • Chinese: 佩奇
  • Chinese: 芬夫基兴
  • Corsican: Pécs
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  • Croatian: Pečuh
  • Croatian: Petocrikva
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  • Czech: Pětikostelí
  • Danish: Pecs
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  • Dutch: Funfkirchen
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  • Eastern Mari: Печ
  • Egyptian Arabic: بيتش
  • Erzya: Печ
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  • French: Cinq-Eglises
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  • Georgian: პეჩი
  • German: Fünfkirchen
  • German: Pecs
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  • German: Pecuh
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  • German: Pecuj
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  • German: Quinque Ecclesiae
  • Greek: Πεκς
  • Greek: Πετς
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  • Gujarati: પેક્સ
  • Hebrew: פץ‘
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  • Hindi: पेक्स
  • Hungarian: Fünfkirchen
  • Hungarian: Pécs
  • Hungarian: Pecuh
  • Hungarian: Quinque Ecclesiae
  • Hungarian: Sopianae
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  • Indonesian: Fünfkirchen
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  • Italian: Cinquechiese
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  • Japanese: ペーチ
  • Japanese: ペーチュ
  • Kannada: ಪೆಕ್ಸ್
  • Kazakh: Пежш
  • Korean: 페치
  • Latin: Pecs
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  • Latin: Quinque Ecclesiae
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  • Marathi: पेच
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  • Mingrelian: პეჩი
  • Moksha: Пэч
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  • Northern Frisian: Pécs
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Fünfkirchen
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Pecs
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  • Norwegian Bokmål: Pečuh
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Peçuy
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Fünfkirchen
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Päťkostolie
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  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Pečuh
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  • Persian: پچ
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  • Pushto: پچ (هنګري)
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  • Sinhala: පෙක්ස්
  • Slovak: Päťkostolie
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  • Tamil: பேக்ஸ்
  • Tatar: Печ
  • Telugu: పీస్
  • Thai: เปช
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  • Urdu: پئچ
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  • Western Mari: Печ
  • Western Panjabi: پیچ
  • Wu Chinese: 佩奇
  • Yiddish: פעטש
  • Yue Chinese: 佩奇
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