Sliven

Sliven is a city in Central Eastern , under the southern slopes of the . A rocky ridge, the Blue Stones, provides a scenic backdrop for the city.
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  • Type: City with 77,800 residents
  • Description: city in Sliven municipality, Sliven oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Islimje”, “Selimno”, “Selymnia”, “Slivno”, “Σήλυμνος”, “ГР.СЛИВЕН”, “Сливен/Sliven”, and “סליוון”
  • Postal code: 8800

Places of Interest

Highlights: Hadzhi Dimitar Stadium and Regional Historical Museum.

Stadium
Stadion Hadzhi Dimitar is a multi-purpose stadium in Sliven, .

Museum
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Art gallery
Photo: Edguybg, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Sliven

Latitude
42.6818° or 42° 40′ 54″ north
Longitude
26.3154° or 26° 18′ 55″ east
Population
77,800
Elevation
281 metres (922 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BG SLP
Open location code
8GJ8M8J8+P4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31058189
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
727079
Wiki­data ID
Q178385
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Yue Chinese—“Sliven” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Sliven”
  • Amharic: “ስሊቬን”
  • Arabic: “سليفن”
  • Armenian: “Սլիվեն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sliven”
  • Bashkir: “Сливен”
  • Basque: “Sliven”
  • Belarusian: “Слівен”
  • Belarusian: “Сьлівэн”
  • Bengali: “স্লিভেন”
  • Bulgarian: “Сливен”
  • Catalan: “Sliven”
  • Cebuano: “Sliven (kapital sa rehiyon sa Bulgaria)”
  • Cebuano: “Sliven”
  • Central Kurdish: “سلیڤێن”
  • Chechen: “Сливен”
  • Chinese: “斯利文”
  • Church Slavic: “Сливьнъ”
  • Croatian: “Sliven”
  • Czech: “Sliven”
  • Danish: “Sliven”
  • Dutch: “Sliven”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سليفن”
  • Esperanto: “Sliven”
  • Estonian: “Sliven”
  • Finnish: “Sliven”
  • French: “Sliven”
  • Georgian: “სლივენი”
  • German: “Sliwen”
  • Greek: “Σλίβεν”
  • Gujarati: “સ્લિવેન”
  • Hausa: “Sliven”
  • Hebrew: “סליבן”
  • Hindi: “स्लिवेन”
  • Hungarian: “Szliven”
  • Indonesian: “Sliven”
  • Irish: “Sliven”
  • Italian: “Sliven”
  • Japanese: “スリヴェン”
  • Javanese: “Sliven”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಲಿವೇನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಲೀವೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Slïven”
  • Kazakh: “Сливен”
  • Kazakh: “سلىيۆەن”
  • Kirghiz: “Сливен”
  • Korean: “슬리벤”
  • Kurdish: “Slîven”
  • Latvian: “Slivena”
  • Limburgan: “Sliven”
  • Lithuanian: “Slivenas”
  • Lombard: “Sliven”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sliwen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Silven”
  • Macedonian: “Сливен”
  • Malay: “Sliven”
  • Maltese: “Sliven”
  • Marathi: “स्लायवन”
  • Moksha: “Сливэн”
  • Mongolian: “Сливен”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sliwen (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sliwen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sliven”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sliven”
  • Norwegian: “Sliven”
  • Oromo: “Sliven”
  • Ossetian: “Сливен”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “اسلمیه”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਲੀਵੇਨ”
  • Persian: “اسلیون”
  • Polish: “Sliwen”
  • Portuguese: “Sliven”
  • Pushto: “سلیون”
  • Romanian: “Sliven”
  • Russian: “Сливен”
  • Scots: “Sliven”
  • Serbian: “Sliven”
  • Serbian: “Сливен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sliven”
  • Silesian: “Sliwen”
  • Sinhala: “සිල්වන්”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ලිවෙන්, බල්ගේරියාව”
  • Slovak: “Sliven”
  • Slovenian: “Sliven”
  • Somali: “Sliven”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسلیون”
  • Spanish: “Sliven”
  • Swahili: “Sliven”
  • Swedish: “Sliven”
  • Tajik: “Сливен”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்லிவன்”
  • Tatar: “Сливен”
  • Telugu: “స్లివెన్”
  • Thai: “สลิเวน”
  • Turkish: “Islimiye”
  • Turkish: “İslimye”
  • Turkish: “Sliven”
  • Turkmen: “Sliwen”
  • Ukrainian: “Сливен”
  • Ukrainian: “Слівен”
  • Urdu: “سیلوین”
  • Uzbek: “Sliven”
  • Veps: “Sliven”
  • Vietnamese: “Sliven”
  • Vlax Romani: “Sliven”
  • Volapük: “Sliven”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sliven”
  • Welsh: “Sliven”
  • Western Armenian: “Իսլիմեա” (historical)
  • Western Panjabi: “سلیوین”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯利文”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯利文”

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