Smolyan

Smolyan is a town in the of . It occupies the narrow gorge of the Cherna River in the East Rhodope Mountains, and has 34 000 residents.
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  • Type: City with 30,500 residents
  • Description: city in Smolyan municipality, Smolyan oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Paschmaklii”, “Pashmaklă”, “Pashmakli”, “Pašmakli”, and “Pasmakly”
  • Postal code: 4700

Places of Interest

Highlights include Smolyan History Museum and Rhodope Dramatic Theatre Nikolay Haytov.

Museum
Photo: Svik, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Theater building
Photo: Rossito 907, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theater building.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
The is an Eastern Orthodox church in Smolyan, , inaugurated on 2 July 2006. Some people believe that it is the 2nd largest church in the country and the largest church in Southern Bulgaria.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pisanitsa.

Village
Photo: Bggoldie, GPL.
is a village.

Smolyan

Latitude
41.5754° or 41° 34′ 32″ north
Longitude
24.7127° or 24° 42′ 46″ east
Population
30,500
Elevation
921 metres (3,022 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BG SML
Open location code
8GH6HPG7+53
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31058190
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
727030
Wiki­data ID
Q192888
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Smolyan” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ስሞልያን”
  • Arabic: “سموليان”
  • Arabic: “سمولين”
  • Armenian: “Սմոլյան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Smolyan”
  • Bashkir: “Смолян”
  • Basque: “Smolian”
  • Belarusian: “Смолян”
  • Bengali: “স্মলিয়ান”
  • Bengali: “স্মোলিয়ান”
  • Bulgarian: “Пашмакли”
  • Bulgarian: “Смолян”
  • Catalan: “Smolian”
  • Cebuano: “Smolyan (kapital sa rehiyon sa Bulgaria)”
  • Cebuano: “Smolyan”
  • Central Kurdish: “سمۆلیان”
  • Chechen: “Смолян”
  • Chinese: “斯莫梁”
  • Chinese: “斯莫樑”
  • Church Slavic: “Смол҄ьнъ”
  • Croatian: “Smoljan”
  • Czech: “Smoljan”
  • Danish: “Smolyan”
  • Dutch: “Smoljan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سموليان”
  • Esperanto: “Smoljan”
  • Finnish: “Smoljan”
  • French: “Smolyan”
  • Galician: “Smolyan”
  • German: “Gemeinde Smoljan”
  • German: “Smolian”
  • German: “Smoljan”
  • Greek: “Σμόλιαν”
  • Gujarati: “સ્મોલિયન”
  • Hausa: “Smolyan”
  • Hebrew: “סמוליאן”
  • Hindi: “स्मोलयां”
  • Hindi: “स्मोल्यान”
  • Hungarian: “Szmoljan”
  • Icelandic: “Smoljan”
  • Ido: “Smolyan”
  • Indonesian: “Smolyan”
  • Irish: “Smolyan”
  • Italian: “Smoljan”
  • Japanese: “スモリャン”
  • Javanese: “Smolyan”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಮೋಲ್ಯಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Smolyan”
  • Kazakh: “Смолян”
  • Kazakh: “سموليان”
  • Kirghiz: “Смолян”
  • Korean: “스몰랸”
  • Latvian: “Smoļana”
  • Lithuanian: “Smolianas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Smolian”
  • Macedonian: “Смољан”
  • Malay: “Smolyan”
  • Marathi: “स्मोलियन”
  • Moksha: “Смолян”
  • Northern Frisian: “Smoljan (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Smoljan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Smolyan”
  • Oromo: “Smolyan”
  • Ossetian: “Смолян”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਮੋਲਿਆਨ”
  • Persian: “اسمولیان”
  • Persian: “سمولیان”
  • Polish: “Smolan”
  • Portuguese: “Smolyan”
  • Pushto: “سمولین”
  • Romanian: “Smolean”
  • Romanian: “Smolian”
  • Romanian: “Smolyan”
  • Russian: “Смолян (Болгария)”
  • Russian: “Смолян (город)”
  • Russian: “Смолян”
  • Scots: “Smolyan”
  • Serbian: “Smoljan”
  • Serbian: “Смолян”
  • Serbian: “Смољан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Smoljan”
  • Sinhala: “ස්මොලියන්”
  • Slovak: “Smoľan”
  • Slovak: “Smoljan”
  • Slovenian: “Smoljan”
  • Somali: “Smolyan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سمولیان”
  • Spanish: “Smolyan”
  • Swahili: “Smolyan”
  • Swedish: “Smoljan”
  • Tajik: “Смолян”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்மோலியன்”
  • Tatar: “Смолән”
  • Tatar: “Смолян”
  • Telugu: “స్మోల్యాన్”
  • Thai: “สโมลยัน”
  • Turkish: “Ahıçelebi”
  • Turkish: “Paşmaklı”
  • Turkish: “Smoljan”
  • Turkish: “Smolyan, Bulgaristan”
  • Turkish: “Smolyan”
  • Ukrainian: “Смолян”
  • Urdu: “سمولیان”
  • Urdu: “سمولین”
  • Uzbek: “Smolyan”
  • Vietnamese: “Smolyan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Smolyan”
  • Welsh: “Smolyan”
  • Western Panjabi: “سمولیان”
  • “Smolian”
  • “Смолян”

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