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Silistra

Silistra

Silistra is a city on the in , in the corner where the short land border between and Bulgaria meets the river. Nearby is the Srebarna Nature Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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  • Type: City with 37,900 residents
  • Description: city in Silistra municipality, Silistra oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Silistria”
  • Postal code: 7500

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roman Tomb (Silistra) and Mezhidi Tabia Fortress.

Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Roman Tomb of Silistra is an Ancient Roman burial tomb in the town of Silistra in northeastern . Dating to the mid-4th century AD, the Roman Tomb is the best-preserved architectural monument of the Ancient Roman city of Durostorum.

Photo: Vislupus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Medjidi Tabia Fortress is a fortress from the 1840s and early 1850s. The fortress was built in the period 1841-1853 according to the plans of the German military engineer Helmut von Moltke who visited Silistra in 1837.

Silistra

Latitude
44.1183° or 44° 7′ 6″ north
Longitude
27.26° or 27° 15′ 36″ east
Population
37,900
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
IATA airport code
SLS
United Nations Location Code
BG SLS
Open location code
8GP94796+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31058188
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
727221
Wiki­data ID
Q182428
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Silistra” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سيليسترا”
  • Aragonese: “Silistra”
  • Armenian: “Սիլիստրա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Silistra”
  • Belarusian: “Дурастор”
  • Belarusian: “Сілістра”
  • Belarusian: “Сілістрыя”
  • Bengali: “সিলিস্ত্রা”
  • Bosnian: “Silistra”
  • Bulgarian: “Доростол”
  • Bulgarian: “Доросторум”
  • Bulgarian: “Дръстър”
  • Bulgarian: “Дуросторум”
  • Bulgarian: “Силистра”
  • Catalan: “Silistra”
  • Cebuano: “Silistra”
  • Central Kurdish: “سیلیسترا”
  • Chechen: “Силистра”
  • Chinese: “西利斯特拉”
  • Chinese: “錫利斯特拉”
  • Chinese: “锡利斯特拉”
  • Church Slavic: “Силистра”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Silistre”
  • Croatian: “Silistra”
  • Czech: “Silistra”
  • Danish: “Silistra”
  • Dutch: “Silistra”
  • Dutch: “Silistria”
  • Esperanto: “Silistra”
  • Esperanto: “Силистра”
  • Estonian: “Silistra”
  • Finnish: “Durostorum”
  • Finnish: “Silistra”
  • French: “Dristra”
  • French: “Silistra”
  • French: “Silistri”
  • French: “Silistria”
  • French: “Silistrie”
  • Galician: “Silistra”
  • German: “Dorostol”
  • German: “Dorostorum”
  • German: “Durostorum”
  • German: “Gemeinde Silistra”
  • German: “Silistra”
  • German: “Silistria”
  • German: “Theodoroupolis”
  • Greek: “Σιλίστρα”
  • Gujarati: “સિલિસ્ટ્રા”
  • Hebrew: “סיליסטרה”
  • Hindi: “शिलिस्ट्रा”
  • Hungarian: “Szilisztra”
  • Indonesian: “Silistra”
  • Irish: “Silistra”
  • Italian: “Silistra”
  • Japanese: “シリストラ”
  • Japanese: “ドゥロストルム”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಲಿಸ್ತ್ರ”
  • Kazakh: “Sïlïstra”
  • Kazakh: “Силистра (Силистра облысы)”
  • Kazakh: “Силистра”
  • Kazakh: “سىيلىيسترا”
  • Korean: “실리스트라”
  • Latin: “Durostorum”
  • Latvian: “Silistra”
  • Lithuanian: “Silistra”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Silistra”
  • Macedonian: “Силистра”
  • Malay: “Silistra”
  • Marathi: “सिलिस्ट्रा”
  • Moksha: “Силистра”
  • Northern Frisian: “Silistra (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Silistra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Silistra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silistra”
  • Norwegian: “Silistra”
  • Ossetian: “Доростол”
  • Ossetian: “Силистрæ”
  • Persian: “سیلیسترا”
  • Polish: “Drystra”
  • Polish: “Silistra”
  • Portuguese: “Dorostolon”
  • Portuguese: “Durostorum”
  • Portuguese: “Silistra”
  • Romanian: “Dârstor”
  • Romanian: “Dristra”
  • Romanian: “Durustorum”
  • Romanian: “Silistra”
  • Russian: “Диристыр”
  • Russian: “Дористол”
  • Russian: “Доростол”
  • Russian: “Дурострум”
  • Russian: “Селистра”
  • Russian: “Силистра”
  • Russian: “Силистрия”
  • Scots: “Silistra”
  • Serbian: “Silistra”
  • Serbian: “Силистра”
  • Serbian: “Силистрија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Silistra”
  • Silesian: “Silistra”
  • Sinhala: “සිලිස්ට්‍රා”
  • Slovak: “Silistra”
  • Slovenian: “Silistra”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیلیسترا”
  • Spanish: “Dorostolon”
  • Spanish: “Silistra”
  • Swedish: “Durostorum”
  • Swedish: “Silistra”
  • Swedish: “Silistria”
  • Tamil: “சிலிஸ்ட்ரா”
  • Tatar: “Силистра”
  • Telugu: “సిలిస్ట్రా”
  • Thai: “ซิลิสตรา”
  • Turkish: “Silistire”
  • Turkish: “Silistre”
  • Ukrainian: “Доростол”
  • Ukrainian: “Силистра”
  • Ukrainian: “Силістра”
  • Ukrainian: “Сілістра”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Silistra”
  • Urdu: “سیلیسترا”
  • Vietnamese: “Silistra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Silistra”
  • Western Armenian: “Սիլիսթրա”
  • Western Panjabi: “سیلسترا”
  • “Silistra”

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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 “Silistra”. Photo: Georgi Genchev, Public domain.