Smolyan
Smolyan is a town in the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria. It occupies the narrow gorge of the Cherna River in the East Rhodope Mountains, and has 34 000 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 30,500 residents
- Description: city in Smolyan municipality, Smolyan oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Paschmaklii”, “Pashmaklă”, “Pashmakli”, “Pašmakli”, and “Pasmakly”
- Postal codes: 4700 and 4700
Places of Interest
Highlights include Smolyan History Museum and Rhodope Dramatic Theatre Nikolay Haytov.
Rhodope Dramatic Theatre Nikolay Haytov
Theater building
Photo: Rossito 907, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rhodope Dramatic Theatre Nikolay Haytov is a theater building.
Church of Saint Vissarion of Smolyan
Church
The Church of Saint Vissarion of Smolyan is an Eastern Orthodox church in Smolyan, Bulgaria, 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.
Smolyan
- Categories: oblast seat, municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Smolyan, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.5768° or 41° 34′ 37″ northLongitude
24.701° or 24° 42′ 4″ eastPopulation
30,500Elevation
921 metres (3,022 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG SMLOpen location code
8GH6HPG2+PCOpenStreetMap ID
node 31058190OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Smolyan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سموليان”
- Armenian: “Սմոլյան”
- Bashkir: “Смолян”
- Basque: “Smolian”
- Belarusian: “Смолян”
- Bengali: “স্মলিয়ান”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “סמוליאן”
- Hindi: “स्मोलयां”
- Hungarian: “Szmoljan”
- Icelandic: “Smoljan”
- Ido: “Smolyan”
- Indonesian: “Smolyan”
- Irish: “Smolyan”
- Italian: “Smoljan”
- Japanese: “スモリャン”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಮೋಲ್ಯಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Smolyan”
- Kazakh: “Смолян”
- Kazakh: “سموليان”
- 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”
- Ossetian: “Смолян”
- Persian: “اسمولیان”
- Polish: “Smolan”
- Portuguese: “Smolyan”
- 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”
- South Azerbaijani: “سمولیان”
- Spanish: “Smolyan”
- Swedish: “Smoljan”
- Tamil: “ஸ்மோலியன்”
- Tatar: “Смолән”
- Telugu: “స్మోల్యాన్”
- Thai: “สโมลยัน”
- Turkish: “Ahıçelebi”
- Turkish: “Paşmaklı”
- Turkish: “Smoljan”
- Turkish: “Smolyan, Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Smolyan”
- Ukrainian: “Смолян”
- Urdu: “سمولیان”
- Vietnamese: “Smolyan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Smolyan”
- Welsh: “Smolyan”
- Western Panjabi: “سمولیان”
- “Smolian”
- “Смолян”
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