Shumen
Shumen is a city in the northeastern part of Bulgaria, notable for the huge Monument looming over the city and its proximity to two medieval capitals of Bulgaria, Pliska and Preslav, and the Madara Rider, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Type: City with 85,500 residents
- Description: city in Shumen municipality, Shumen oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Choumèn”, “Choumla”, “Gemeinde Schumen”, “Kolarovgrad”, “Kolarovgradas”, “Schumla”, “Schumna”, “Sciumen”, “Shumla”, “Shumna”, “Šumla”, “ГР.ШУМЕН”, “Коларовград”, and “Шумла”
- Postal code: 9700
Photo: Magadanski uchen, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Shumen and Dobri Voynikov - 1856.
Dobri Voynikov - 1856
Community center
Photo: Izvora, Public domain.Dramatichno-kuklen teatr ‘Vasil Drumev’
Theater building
Dramatichno-kuklen teatr ‘Vasil Drumev’ is a theater building.
Shumen
- Categories: municipality seat, oblast seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Shumen, Southern Dobruja, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
43.2704° or 43° 16′ 13″ north
Longitude
26.9247° or 26° 55′ 29″ east
Population
85,500
Elevation
237 metres (778 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Shumen” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሹመን”
- Arabic: “شومن”
- Armenian: “Շումեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Şumen”
- Basque: “Xumen”
- Belarusian: “Шумен”
- Belarusian: “Шумэн”
- Bengali: “শুমেন”
- Bengali: “সোমেন”
- Bulgarian: “Шумен”
- Catalan: “Xumen”
- Cebuano: “Obshtina Shumen”
- Cebuano: “Shumen”
- Central Kurdish: “شومێن”
- Chechen: “Шумен”
- Chinese: “舒門”
- Chinese: “舒门”
- Church Slavic: “Шоумьнъ”
- Croatian: “Šumen”
- Czech: “Šumen”
- Danish: “Sjumen”
- Dutch: “Sjoemen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شومن”
- Esperanto: “Ŝumen”
- Estonian: “Šumen”
- Finnish: “Šumen”
- French: “Choumen”
- Georgian: “შუმენი”
- German: “Schumen”
- German: “Shumen”
- Greek: “Σούμεν”
- Gujarati: “શુમેન”
- Hausa: “Shumen”
- Hebrew: “שומן”
- Hindi: “शुमेन”
- Hindi: “शूमें”
- Hungarian: “Sumen”
- Ido: “Shumen”
- Indonesian: “Shumen”
- Irish: “Shumen”
- Italian: “Šumen”
- Japanese: “シュメン”
- Javanese: “Shumen”
- Kannada: “ಷುಮೆನ್”
- Kannada: “ಷುಮೇನ್”
- Kazakh: “Şwmen”
- Kazakh: “Шумен”
- Kazakh: “شۋمەن”
- Kirghiz: “Шумен”
- Korean: “슈멘”
- Latvian: “Šumena”
- Lithuanian: “Šumenas”
- Lombard: “Šumen”
- Luxembourgish: “Schumen”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Șumen”
- Macedonian: “Шумен”
- Malay: “Shumen”
- Marathi: “शुमेन”
- Moksha: “Шумэн”
- Mongolian: “Шумен”
- Northern Frisian: “Schumen (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Schumen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjumen”
- Norwegian: “Sjumen”
- Oromo: “Shumen”
- Ossetian: “Шумен”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ੁਮੇਨ”
- Persian: “شومن”
- Polish: “Szumen”
- Portuguese: “Shumen”
- Pushto: “شومن”
- Romanian: “Șumen”
- Russian: “Шумен”
- Scots: “Shumen”
- Serbian: “Šumen”
- Serbian: “Шумен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šumen”
- Sinhala: “ශුමෙන්, බල්ගේරියාව”
- Sinhala: “ශුමෙන්”
- Slovak: “Šumen”
- Slovenian: “Šumen”
- Somali: “Shumen”
- South Azerbaijani: “شومن”
- Spanish: “Shumen”
- Swahili: “Shumen”
- Swedish: “Sjumen”
- Tajik: “Шумен”
- Tamil: “ஷுமென்”
- Tatar: “Шумен”
- Telugu: “షూమెన్”
- Thai: “ชูเมน”
- Turkish: “Şumnu”
- Ukrainian: “Shoumen”
- Ukrainian: “Шумен”
- Urdu: “شومن”
- Uzbek: “Shumen”
- Vietnamese: “Shumen”
- Vlax Romani: “Shumen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shumen”
- Welsh: “Shumen”
- Western Panjabi: “شومین”
- Wu Chinese: “舒门”
- Yue Chinese: “舒門”
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